Brandon432

Brandon432 t1_ivm0u0o wrote

I’m sure there is something about serum compatibility or physiological similarity to humans, but I don’t know the answer.

We’re not talking about cosmetics testing here. We’re talking about saving human lives. If you want to sign up as the serum factory, more power to you. Otherwise save the indignation for the mink farms.

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Brandon432 t1_ivlw1dv wrote

Let's use snake venom as an example. Venom is extracted from a venomous snake and then dosed (carefully) into a mammal, often a horse or sheep. That animal develops antibodies to fight the venom. Those antibodies are harvested (from blood serum), processed, stabilized, and packaged into antivenom for humans or pets. The antibodies can be included in whole (generally more effective but high risk of allergic reaction) or just certain parts (less effective, lower allergic risk).

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Brandon432 t1_iu4srkv wrote

This is a perfect answer to OP’s question “is it possible?” The back of envelope exponential population model above gives an estimate that is the same order of magnitude as and also exceeds OP’s datapoint before accounting for drag factors.

“Did it produce?” is a different question

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Brandon432 t1_iu4ry5w wrote

Ursus arctos is a species properly known as the brown bear. It includes a bunch of subspecies: Himalayan Brown Bear, Atlas Bear (extinct), North American Brown Bear (aka “grizzly”), Kodiak Bear, Eurasian Brown Bear, and others.

“Grizzly” is a colloquial name for two subspecies (if you count the extinct California Grizzly). The species is brown bear. “Brown bears” definitely exist.

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Brandon432 t1_iszguji wrote

You could Google each of these. In short, the chart represents ownership of the companies. Each company has mines all over the world. The biggest concentration of uranium mines are northwestern Canada, Central Europe and central Africa (broadly). In fact, uranium one which is owned by Russian state company, Rosatom, has mines in the US.

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