{"id":23345,"date":"2024-03-08T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T06:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=23345"},"modified":"2024-03-08T08:08:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T06:08:43","slug":"slow-virus-is-good-for-your-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/03\/slow-virus-is-good-for-your-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow virus is good for your lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; because it keeps you lab running.<\/p>\n<p>Writing now a review in\u00a0 immunology,\u00a0 I found a nice joke in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/08\/covid-19-immunity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery\/614956\/\">The Atlantic<\/a> quite early in the COVID-19 pandemic<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a joke about immunology, which Jessica Metcalf of Princeton recently told me. An immunologist and a cardiologist are kidnapped. The kidnappers threaten to shoot one of them, but promise to spare whoever has made the greater contribution to humanity. The cardiologist says, \u201cWell, I\u2019ve identified drugs that have saved the lives of millions of people.\u201d Impressed, the kidnappers turn to the immunologist. \u201cWhat have you done?\u201d they ask. The immunologist says, \u201cThe thing is, the immune system is very complicated \u2026\u201d And the cardiologist says, \u201cJust shoot me now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 24.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; because it keeps you lab running. Writing now a review in\u00a0 immunology,\u00a0 I found a nice joke in The Atlantic quite early in the COVID-19 pandemic There\u2019s a joke about immunology, which Jessica Metcalf of Princeton recently told me. An immunologist and a cardiologist are kidnapped. The kidnappers threaten to shoot one of them, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/03\/slow-virus-is-good-for-your-lab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slow virus is good for your lab<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23347,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23345\/revisions\/23347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}