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2022-10-31 Science & Technology

Playing With Fire: A Lab-Made Frankenstein COVID-19 Virus By Boston University

[ZERO] The creation of a new recombinant COVID-19 virus at Boston University, viewed as a "Frankenstein virus" by many, has raised a public uproar. This is not merely a risky gain-of-function experiment on "enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPPs)", it is a creation of an enhanced pandemic pathogen. NO "potential" here.

What is the rationale for this statement? What is the chimeric virus that we talk about here?

A team of researchers at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories posted a paper on October 14, 2022, on BioRxiv, a preprint server for biology, revealing that they had created a lab-made COVID-19 chimeric virus with reverse genetics technology.

Specifically, they’ve swapped the S gene of the spike protein in the original SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan strain with the corresponding S gene from the Omicron variant. So, the lab-made Chimeric virus (Wuhan-Omi-S chimeric virus) has all the genes from the Wuhan strain, which is much more pathogenic than the Omicron strain, except the S gene, which is from the highly transmissible yet relatively mildly pathogenic Omicron strain.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-31 10:19|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 The BU researchers adamantly claim this is not "gain-of-function" research. This story is so old it has already gone down the MSM memory hole.

Posted by Gromble Dribble4342 2022-10-31 10:54|| 2022-10-31 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought AOC was the worst thing BU would ever unleash on our society. It looks like that was a challenge their biology department took up in spades.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-10-31 11:00|| 2022-10-31 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Great (sarc)! All we need is a bunch of left-wing nuts doing gain-of-function research with viruses in one of our academic institutions.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-10-31 11:15|| 2022-10-31 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Third tier university looking for Saudi funding

Posted by Regular joe 2022-10-31 11:31|| 2022-10-31 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 THIS is our next "monkey pox", they always lets everyone know it exists before it mysteriously "escapes" from the lab, is it even real or just a media figment of the imagination, doesnt matter, all they have to do is let the news cycle pick it up and voila, we have the next greatest imperative to "VACCINATE EVERYONE "THIS TIME"

Posted by 746 2022-10-31 13:15|| 2022-10-31 13:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Dr. Fauci should sue for Patent Infringement.

Posted by Airandee 2022-10-31 20:03|| 2022-10-31 20:03|| Front Page Top

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