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| − | * US government [https://www.nature.com/articles/514411a | + | * US government [https://www.nature.com/articles/514411a:ceases funding] of gain-of-function research that makes viruses more dangerous, pending further risk assessment. |
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| + | * Research into a lab-made coronavirus related to SARS-CoV [https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787:stirred debate] over whether the pandemic potential was worth the risk. | ||
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| + | == December 2017 == | ||
| + | * NIH [https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research:restarts funding] of Gain-of-Function research. | ||
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| + | == March 2018 == | ||
| + | * EcoHealth Alliance submits [https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/:grant proposal to DARPA] to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-CoV viruses to more efficiently bind to human cells | ||
Revision as of 19:28, 15 June 2022
April 2012
- Six miners in Yunnan hospitalised with symptoms very similar to a SARS-CoV-2 infection after catching coronavirus strain RaTG13/CoV4991. Three miners died. Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers collected tissue samples, and later visited the caves to acquire more material.
October 2014
- US government funding of gain-of-function research that makes viruses more dangerous, pending further risk assessment.
November 2015
- Research into a lab-made coronavirus related to SARS-CoV debate over whether the pandemic potential was worth the risk.
December 2017
- NIH funding of Gain-of-Function research.
March 2018
- EcoHealth Alliance submits proposal to DARPA to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-CoV viruses to more efficiently bind to human cells
