A helper cell for producing an infectious, replication defective, coronavirus (or more generally nidovirus) particle cell comprises (a) a nidovirus permissive cell; (b) a nidovirus replicon RNA comprising the nidovirus packaging signal and a heterologous RNA sequence, wherein the replicon RNA further lacks a sequence encoding at least one nidovirus structural protein; and (c) at…
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. Source: Related: See also, on this site: UNC Chapel Hill files patent 7279327: Methods for producing recombinant coronavirus
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recently awarded a $433,000 grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) for laboratory equipment that will accelerate research to address the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially saving lives. The equipment will go to the lab of Ralph Baric, PhD, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of epidemiology at the…
The response to this disaster must be to prevent this from happening again. The only way to protect the world from another devastating debacle like this is to get to the bottom of its origin. Almost three years after the first SARS-CoV-2 patients were reported in Wuhan, China, most Americans still do not know the…