laboratory engineering

Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) meeting minutes

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U.S. Right to Know has obtained the following Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) meeting minutes though freedom of information requests. IBCs review an institution’s protocols for working with potentially harmful biological agents, including pathogenic microorganisms, and provide biosafety recommendations for conducting the research. The IBC’s role is to review safety protocols; issue biosafety and protocol recommendations, … Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) meeting minutes

Zhengli Shi Edits to Widely-Cited EMI Commentary

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A new document shows Zhengli Shi’s edits to a draft of the Emerging Microbes & Infections commentary, “No credible evidence supporting the claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2.” Zhengli Shi is a leading Chinese virologist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Shi proposed three edits of note. First, she proposed changing the presentation of … Zhengli Shi Edits to Widely-Cited EMI Commentary

Scientists who authored article denying lab engineering of SARS-CoV-2 privately acknowledged possible lab origin, emails show

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Four prominent U.S. virologists who published a widely cited commentary strongly rebutting the theory that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, might have been engineered in a lab privately acknowledged that they could not “rule out the possibility” of a lab leak, according to emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know. The emails discuss … Scientists who authored article denying lab engineering of SARS-CoV-2 privately acknowledged possible lab origin, emails show