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A paper was recently published on the assembly of monkey pox virus through recombination technology in a lab. The work was done before the end of 2021 because t

by todd8 4y ago

A paper was recently published on the assembly of monkey pox virus through recombination technology in a lab. The work was done before the end of 2021 because that was when the paper was submitted for publication, see [1]. I don't understand why one would want go full Frankenstein and build a dangerous pathogen from scratch. Interestingly, the work was funded by the and performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, from the paper: This work was supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (2018ZX10711001-006) and the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KJZD-SW-L06-02). YouTube video, see [2]. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1995820X22000414# https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1995820X2...! [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E6cD-VWhQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E6cD-VWhQY

belval 4y ago
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908B64B197 4y ago
> I don't understand why one would want go full Frankenstein and build a dangerous pathogen from scratch. Especially after failing dramatically in early 2020.
acoard 4y ago
I'm not seeing the connection to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The word Wuhan doesn't appear on the page (CTRL+F), nor do I see a clear one-to-one association to Wuhan from "National Science and Technology Major Project of China" or "Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences." I haven't opened the YouTube video as I'm on data right now.
- todd8 4y ago
  The affiliation of authors of academic papers is usually indicated by the footnotes associated with the authors names. You will see some small letters like superscripts next to the authors names. All of them list one or two affiliations with the first one being (a): State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

by todd8 4y ago

belval 4y ago

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908B64B197 4y ago

> I don't understand why one would want go full Frankenstein and build a dangerous pathogen from scratch. Especially after failing dramatically in early 2020.

acoard 4y ago

I'm not seeing the connection to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The word Wuhan doesn't appear on the page (CTRL+F), nor do I see a clear one-to-one association to Wuhan from "National Science and Technology Major Project of China" or "Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences." I haven't opened the YouTube video as I'm on data right now.

todd8 4y ago
The affiliation of authors of academic papers is usually indicated by the footnotes associated with the authors names. You will see some small letters like superscripts next to the authors names. All of them list one or two affiliations with the first one being (a): State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Center for Biosafety Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China