TE
TechEcho
Home24h TopNewestBestAskShowJobs
GitHubTwitter
Home

TechEcho

A tech news platform built with Next.js, providing global tech news and discussions.

GitHubTwitter

Home

HomeNewestBestAskShowJobs

Resources

HackerNews APIOriginal HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 TechEcho. All rights reserved.

Shi Zhengli Ran Coronavirus Research in Wuhan After US Project Was Shut Down

3 pointsby tropoabout 5 years ago

1 comment

tropoabout 5 years ago
This is about gain-of-function research that the USA stopped in 2014 for safety reasons.<p>Gain-of-function is adding features to viruses. A goal of her research was to add functionality to coronaviruses that could infect humans. With funding stopped in the USA, she moved to Wuhan to continue her work.<p>The timeline runs for years, right up to December 2019. It includes a SARS coronavirus escape in 2017 that was caused when lab workers failed to properly inactivate the virus before taking it out of the BSL-4 high-containment facility.