A Rare Bright Moment In All Of This?

[douglas9401]

Heard this on the six o'clock news on Radio 4 and it made a miserable night a bit better.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54832563

[bobbinwales]

looks as if it maybe promissing- a good avenue to explore, agreed, douglas

[ToraToraTora]

steady dougy me old china, you may be getting in trouble here.

[Peter Pedant]

get nature updates and completely missed this

TYK implies it is a tyrosine kinase ( plonks a phosphate on a tyrosine amino acid ) and there is one mutation..... ( associated with bad covid).

TYK 2 is here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrosine_kinase_2

and even I wanted to go and have a cup of tea instead. I mean students have to learn this type of clag.

[Peter Pedant]

foo den dougy no trouble on AB - never dat
no one will understand it ! haw haw haw

[Peter Pedant]

piece on the Beeb tonite 22.20
sensibly keeping off Tyrosine kinases

" people who get seriously ill are generically different to us - they always are (!) and then they all DDDDIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!" + bulgy eyes

which simplifies it but there is something lost.

[wolf63]

PP. I get the feeling that you are enjoying the gloom and doom of the Pandemic.
:-)

[Old_Geezer]

I hadn't realised that, that was him off Sesame Street.

[Togo]

Have they identified any particular "groups" or defined, possibly visible, "characteristics" that make certain people more susceptible to severe symptoms or is that getting dangerously close to a possible eugenics programme?

[douglas9401]

My mind sometimes goes to places like that, Togo, although I try to keep it off the page lest folk think I'm odd.

[Sqad]

So...human response to a disease process is genetic, which may have host/organism variables...NEVER!.......didn't know that.
That will give some medical depth and staff something together their teeth into with financial support from whoever is gullible.
Good luck.

[Zacs-Master]

Togo, I think Unicorns are particularly susceptible.

[Togo]

Don't know whether that was approval or repudiation Douglas. :))

Odd indeed.

[Togo]

Thats is why they are so rare Zacs. Keep up.

[Zacs-Master]

Ooooh, yeah. Silly me.