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U North Carolina Working With Wuhan Scientistis to Research Deadly Virus Functionalization for Human InfectionWorld News Feb 20, 2020 by Vineet D Menachery Evidence emerges that Wuhan scientists, on a grant from the Chinese National Science Foundation, have been working directly with University of North Carolina Researcher Ralph S. Baric, on functionalization of coronavirus to make it able to infect humans via the ACE2 gene receptor. This comes in light of the continuing global outbreaks of an airborne coronavirus able to infect humans, and resulting quarantine of 740M people across all provinces of China, as tens of thousands die in just months. tags: #research #virus #coronavirus #pandemic #world-health #wuhan #icu #ccp #covid19 #unc #chapell-hill #university-north-carolina #bio-weapons #funded |
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A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence Ralph Baric, Vineet Menachery and colleagues characterize a SARS-like coronavirus circulating in Chinese horseshoe bats to determine its potential to infect primary human airway epithelial cells, cause disease in mice and respond to available therapeutics. The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV underscores the threat of cross-species transmission events leading to outbreaks in humans.
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