Showing posts with label pandemic prevention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pandemic prevention. Show all posts

Friday, January 19, 2024

How to make your donation to project GRFT

 

Do you know that you can make a tax deductible donation to project GRFT and receive a thank you gift?

Project GRFT is a non-profit dedicated to promoting public health. 

         How can a viral outbreak be prevented from becoming a pandemic?  That is a question that project GRFT is addressing.  We now have very good vaccines to protect against covid-19 infections. Yet we are still faced with a continual pandemic.  In developing countries of the world only 2% of the population have been vaccinated.  Part of the solution to this problem lies in developing antivirals that prevent viral infections.  We have found compelling evidence of such an antiviral in griffithsin, or GRFT. The purpose of our project is to biomanufacture raw materials, which contain GRFT, worldwide and at low cost. Project GRFT’s wonderful volunteer crew has been hard at work on developing this in labs operating on almost no budget. 

Our ongoing fundraising efforts help in keeping the project supplied with equipment, materials, reagents and services sourced from commercial labs. 

We ask for your contribution to help keep the work going and to increase the possibility of preventing future viral outbreaks from exploding into pandemics. 

To show our appreciation project GRFT has gifts from the garden of Trichocereus Rex for all donors to the project.


Note: seeds are only available to be mailed in the USA.

Please request the gift as "seeds gift" and include your name and address so we can mail them to you

You will receive a botanical gift, seeds of Trichocereus species cacti. 

Try growing your own cacti from seed.  The fresh seeds are from carefully hand pollinated flowers.

Trichocereus have been treasured for thousands of years in South America. 

They thrive in the climate of the SF Bay Area. 

They can grow 15 feet tall and bloom with large fragrant white flowers.


Please make your donation Here 

 

Questions or comments welcome here: nenufarmoleculesforlife@gmail.com

 

 

 

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Rice plate

 


Kat, Patrick and Grier check the plates in the incubator
Every organism has a food they like.  We feed the rice calluses by plating the embryos on Callus Induction Media (CIM) 
They are masses of cells and with care will eventually grow into rice plants 
As they grow we break them apart.
We re-plate the pieces and the pieces grow. 
Callus growth is slow and we are working on monitoring how much growth takes place over time.  
Every organism thrives in a certain temperature range.
The incubator is set at 25C for the calluses.
The calluses on CIM are kept in the dark.  
At later stages different media is used and light is introduced so that photosynthesis can occur and then roots and shoots form.