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Dr. Rob Carter
Dr. Rob Carter
Joseph Darnell
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How to Engineer a Pandemic Virus

Episode #40 January. 13, 2021 54m 31s Download
In this episode: Dr. Rob Carter and Joseph Darnell
Joseph and Rob really get into some difficult subjects on this episode as they discuss how scientists pursue their work and whether or not the COVID-19 virus was engineered in a laboratory.

Highlights and Show Notes

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Sanford J, et al. (2015) The waiting time problem in a model hominin population. T Bio Med Model 12:18; doi

Anderson KG, et al. (2020) The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Med 26:450–452; doi

Menachery VD, et al. (2015) A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence. Nat Med 21(12):1508–1514; doi

Williams, S. (2020) NIH Cancels Funding for Bat Coronavirus Research Project, The Scientist, 28 Apr 2020

[Zhou H, et al. (2020) A novel bat coronavirus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 contains natural insertions at the S1/S2 cleavage site of the spike protein. Curr Biol 30:2196–2203; doi](10.1016/j.cub. (2020)05.023)