Research Reporter : Zhong Jingming
Responsible Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television, US, 4 February 2020
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/02/03/a102768327.html?fbclid=IwAR2CMp3U69YOR8jHefZDGYpYE6pyVo4IkPHHjPK7_n-YJHq9rvLS7shi46s
English translation, 5 February 2020, by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
The picture below shows Shi Zhengli delivering a speech at Shanghai Jiaotong University in November 2018. (Web picture)
The outside world has widely questioned whether novel coronavirus is a virus leak as a result of the research and development of biological weapons at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the institute, became the focus of public opinion. A few days ago, netizens discovered that she had collaborated with American scholars and successfully hybridized SARS virus with bat virus in 2015 to create the novel coronavirus that can effectively infect the human respiratory tract.
Shi Zhengli is an expert in coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She delivered a keynote speech entitled "Research on Bat Coronavirus and Its Cross-Species Infection" at Shanghai Jiaotong University in November 2018. In 2017, the "Chinese Bats Carrying Important Virus Research Project" led by Shi Zhengli won the first prize of the 2017 Hubei Natural Science Award.
A few days ago, it was revealed online that novel coronavirus is a virus leak from the research and development of biological weapons at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and a paper published by the institute in the international authoritative academic journal Nature in April 2018 was regarded as one of the evidence by netizens. The paper claims to have discovered a "new coronavirus" that has caused the large-scale deaths of pigs in Guangdong from acute diarrhoea, and the research was done by Shi Zhengli's team.
On 2 February 2020, Shi Zhengli wrote to her WeChat circle of friends guaranteeing that her laboratory and she have nothing to do with the current novel coronavirus outbreak. However, some netizens did not believe her accounts. They found out that she had participated in the synthesis of a "new coronavirus" that could infect the human body as early as 2015.
The journal Nature published a paper entitled "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence". The co-authors of the paper include Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli.
Shi Zhengli is co-author of the paper. (Web picture)
According to the paper, the research team used virus genetic recombination technology to use SARS coronavirus backbone and the SHC014 coronavirus surface protein from Chinese chrysanthemum bats to engineer a hybrid coronavirus that can interact with human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) binds to infect human respiratory cells and is quite toxic.
The research caused academic uneasiness at the time. The journal Nature reports that other virologists question the need for the study, arguing that such experiments are difficult to prove anything and carry great risks. Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, pointed out, "If the virus escapes, no one can predict its trajectory."
Such research has long been accused of biosecurity risks. Therefore, the National Institute of Health (NIH) has suspended funding for all such research since October 2013, and has strengthened research projects on influenza, SARS, and MERS. However, because the study in the above paper started long before the United States suspended funding, the NIH released the study.
After the above paper attracted the attention of netizens, some terrestrial media also reported on this, but only vaguely said that this hybrid coronavirus was created by American scientists, and did not mention the names of Shi Zhengli and others.
The Chinese Communist Party officially announced the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) gene sequence last month, which is said to be nearly 80 per cent identical to the SARS virus gene.
A paper published by Indian scholars recently stated that it was found that multiple HIV genes were abnormally inserted into the coronavirus, allowing the virus to invade the body more effectively, and pointed out that the mutation is unlikely to occur naturally. The dissertation has drawn great attention from American epidemiologists. However, the scholars have temporarily withdrawn the paper for revision. Some experts have analyzed that the main part of the thesis may not be changed, but the part involving subjective discussion may be deleted due to disputes.
Responsible Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television, US, 4 February 2020
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/02/03/a102768327.html?fbclid=IwAR2CMp3U69YOR8jHefZDGYpYE6pyVo4IkPHHjPK7_n-YJHq9rvLS7shi46s
English translation, 5 February 2020, by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
The picture below shows Shi Zhengli delivering a speech at Shanghai Jiaotong University in November 2018. (Web picture)
The outside world has widely questioned whether novel coronavirus is a virus leak as a result of the research and development of biological weapons at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the institute, became the focus of public opinion. A few days ago, netizens discovered that she had collaborated with American scholars and successfully hybridized SARS virus with bat virus in 2015 to create the novel coronavirus that can effectively infect the human respiratory tract.
Shi Zhengli is an expert in coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She delivered a keynote speech entitled "Research on Bat Coronavirus and Its Cross-Species Infection" at Shanghai Jiaotong University in November 2018. In 2017, the "Chinese Bats Carrying Important Virus Research Project" led by Shi Zhengli won the first prize of the 2017 Hubei Natural Science Award.
A few days ago, it was revealed online that novel coronavirus is a virus leak from the research and development of biological weapons at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and a paper published by the institute in the international authoritative academic journal Nature in April 2018 was regarded as one of the evidence by netizens. The paper claims to have discovered a "new coronavirus" that has caused the large-scale deaths of pigs in Guangdong from acute diarrhoea, and the research was done by Shi Zhengli's team.
On 2 February 2020, Shi Zhengli wrote to her WeChat circle of friends guaranteeing that her laboratory and she have nothing to do with the current novel coronavirus outbreak. However, some netizens did not believe her accounts. They found out that she had participated in the synthesis of a "new coronavirus" that could infect the human body as early as 2015.
The journal Nature published a paper entitled "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence". The co-authors of the paper include Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli.
Shi Zhengli is co-author of the paper. (Web picture)
According to the paper, the research team used virus genetic recombination technology to use SARS coronavirus backbone and the SHC014 coronavirus surface protein from Chinese chrysanthemum bats to engineer a hybrid coronavirus that can interact with human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) binds to infect human respiratory cells and is quite toxic.
The research caused academic uneasiness at the time. The journal Nature reports that other virologists question the need for the study, arguing that such experiments are difficult to prove anything and carry great risks. Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, pointed out, "If the virus escapes, no one can predict its trajectory."
Such research has long been accused of biosecurity risks. Therefore, the National Institute of Health (NIH) has suspended funding for all such research since October 2013, and has strengthened research projects on influenza, SARS, and MERS. However, because the study in the above paper started long before the United States suspended funding, the NIH released the study.
After the above paper attracted the attention of netizens, some terrestrial media also reported on this, but only vaguely said that this hybrid coronavirus was created by American scientists, and did not mention the names of Shi Zhengli and others.
The Chinese Communist Party officially announced the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) gene sequence last month, which is said to be nearly 80 per cent identical to the SARS virus gene.
A paper published by Indian scholars recently stated that it was found that multiple HIV genes were abnormally inserted into the coronavirus, allowing the virus to invade the body more effectively, and pointed out that the mutation is unlikely to occur naturally. The dissertation has drawn great attention from American epidemiologists. However, the scholars have temporarily withdrawn the paper for revision. Some experts have analyzed that the main part of the thesis may not be changed, but the part involving subjective discussion may be deleted due to disputes.
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