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The article discusses a 2014 U.S. ban on virus gain-of-function experiments. Looking it up, I found this 2015 Nature article which also mentions the ban. https
by notquitehere 6y ago
The article discusses a 2014 U.S. ban on virus gain-of-function experiments. Looking it up, I found this 2015 Nature article which also mentions the ban.
https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-%201.18787 https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...
Here's a link to the 2017 Wuhan labs research paper that was quoted: "we constructed a group of infectious bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones with the backbone of WIV1 and variants of S genes from 8 different bat SARSr-CoVs" https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoRight on, it should be a major red flag: the fact that a virus with high human tropism was brought to the world's attention in a city that's home to only one of two BSL4 labs in the world and that the lab studies bat coronaviruses in context of human infection.