Gain-of-function

Gain-of-function  (research)
Interest of	• Danielle Anderson • Ralph Baric • Peter Daszak • EcoHealth Alliance • Anthony Fauci • Bill Gates • Wuhan Institute of Virology

"Gain-of-function" research is the modification of naturally occurring viruses in order to make them more deadly and/or more contagious, especially in humans.

Temporary moratorium

Safety concerns lead to the banning of "Gain-of-function" research on coronaviruses in the US in 2014, but it "came roaring back under Trump and Fauci" in 2017. Marc Lipsitch commented that this sort of research had “done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics, yet... risked creating an accidental pandemic.”

 

Examples

Page name	Description
CRISPR gene editing	Breakthrough technology making gene editing easy and fast.
DEFUSE	A rejected proposal from Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance to weaponise naturally occuring bat coronaviruses, to preempt "zoonotic spillover". Authenticity questionable.
Genetic Extinction Technology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Operation Cauldron	Offshore test of biological weapons.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Sasha Latypova	“The perpetrators desperately, at all cost, need you to to believe that "mutating viruses in a lab" achieves some scary result, that then can be "leaked". That anyone can do it, even a PhD student in their garage. That our enemies are doing it and will "release" a super scary bug any time now, unless the Government is "prepared" by making a stockpile of "predictive vaccines" that can be deployed in DAYS after a new scary virus is detected in China. Or Timbuktu. It is, however, a narrative. There is no way to "mutate viruses" in a lab in the way they all imply - to artificially make them deadlier and more transmissible at the same time. This is a propaganda fairytale with a very specific goal. You should be very concerned about any person (on "their" side or "ours") who repeats it with a serious face. Sure, scientists can experiment with soups of DNA/RNA and grow things in petri dishes. They can design mutations on the computer and try to make concoctions of things. Are those "viruses" that can "leak from the lab" and "infect the world"? No. The proof of this is that while there are 1000 biolabs in the US and Western world playing with viruses. no pandemics or epidemics have resulted from these activities.”	Sasha Latypova	27 January 2023

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars The American Way	foreword	1 April 2003	William H. Schaap Ellen Ray
Document:Was there a Wuhan lab leak?	blog post	1 June 2021	Jonathan Cook	No meaningful lessons will be learnt about what really happened in Wuhan. Maintaining the illusion of truth will continue to take precedence over uncovering the truth. And for that reason we are doomed to keep making the same screw-ups. As the next pandemic will doubtless attest.

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