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There's also the concern of immediate availability, i.e. if shark-derived squalene is available today and the plant-derived version takes time to scale, we can'
by mmm_grayons 6y ago
There's also the concern of immediate availability, i.e. if shark-derived squalene is available today and the plant-derived version takes time to scale, we can't just start using that if we want to mass-produce a vaccine very quickly.
- megous 6y agoPossibly. It's hard to know without having a detailed insight into how this works. Presumably, there's some process involved in extracting it from both animals and plant sources. (You don't just put shark liver into a vaccine.) Someone in the know would have to provide a comparison.