A co-author of the paper is Shi Zhengli-Li, the “Bat Lady” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Two of the authors, Ralph Baric and Boyd Yount, are listed as inventors on Patent 7279327.
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- November 12, 2015. Declan Butler. “Engineered Bat Virus Stirs Debate over Risky Research.” Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.18787.
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