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It was a term of abuse, in effect.

I'd like to leave you with the following thought

And there's several ways of doing this, but one of the most popular ones involves using antibodies.

So for instance, a biotechnology company has now found broadly neutralizing antibodies to influenza, as well as a new antibody target on the flu virus.

What I could have, is this antibody,

Seth Berkley Really cool video, isn't it?

But it wouldn't stop there.

But this does not apply the other way around.

So it's a kind of hospitality.

Antibodies give a new lease of life.

Then it hit me.

So think of it this way.

It'll be millions of times more powerful than it is today.

They are like the superheros of material science.

So then what happened, is we are learning in biology classes, we're supposed to be paying attention to antibodies.

He was confident of his antibodies.

All you do is to create uniform dispersion out of these.

So we decided to do a special project together.

The merit of that step forward is that the toilet basin stays clean.

I began formulating an idea in unlikely place, biology class.

And it's almost like an ideological reaction,

We've got these new antibodies we've identified, and we know that they latch onto many, many variations of the virus.

Some of these infections are actually carrying antibiotic resistance genes now, and that makes them even more difficult.

This, for example, is an antibody staining against serotonin transporters in a slice of mouse brain.

So, here is the idea I came up with.

Then, it hit me.

And for that reason is pretty tricky to get government to put serious money into it.

latches on and disables multiple variations of the virus.

And then, it hit me.

Now, just as we were learning about or I was learning about these while I was reading the paper and the amazing properties, we were learning about this things called antibodies.

Rives is here, and I met him years ago at a book fair he does pop up books.

Then, I was trying to roll over this concept of we were learning about antibodies.

In this rendering of the flu virus, these different colored spikes are what it uses to infect you.

I was reading this paper in biology class about carbon nanotubes

There's a special product on there, bismuth 213, that could be a smart bomb against cancer.

I mean, the cells in our immune system are always hungry.

I could combine what I was reading about, carbon nanotubes, with what I was supposed to be thinking about, antibodies.

What if we could harness them and convince them to not be an antibody that does something like HlV?

(Laughter)

An antibodies are these super cool organic molecules.

This has limitless applications.

So then, I began rolling around this idea