Richard H. Ebright
Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology @RutgersU @BiosafetyNow
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The nine facts about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that everyone needs to know are as follows: 1) SARS-CoV-2 is related to bat SARS-like coronaviruses from southern China and northern...
COVID: summary of lab-origin hypothesis: 1) Pandemic caused by bat SARS-like coronavirus emerged in Wuhan--city 1,000 km from nearest wild bats with SARS-CoV-2-like coronaviruses,...
[T]he United States imposes few security regulations on synthetic DNA providers. Itβs perfectly legal to make a batch of genes from Ebola or smallpox and ship it to a US address, n...
"An..alarming, theme throughout..book is the failure of the scientific..establishment to take seriously..risk..of 'unnatural'..pandemics; those that are triggered deliberately or a...
"Two global trends are on a collision course to upend decades of medical progress and health outcomes: antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, and our rapidly aging society." https://t....
"COVID-19 has resulted in the loss of..15 M lives worldwide..Financial losses are..in the tens of trillions globally, including at least $16 T for the US..Understanding the origins...
" Instead of grappling only with the fact that scientific research might have caused this pandemic, we now also have to contend with whether and how members of the scientific commu...
@JrWhipstock @RebeccaRHelm The lures are part of the frogfish (a modification of the first spine of the dorsal fin), not actual worms or shrimp. Different species of frogfish have...
"The Defense Department is overhauling its approach to countering biological and chemical weapons, as potential adversaries such as Russia and China rush to create threats that are...
"[B]y the 1990s, the sun had set on antibiotics..[T]he profit margins of antibiotics paled in comparison to blockbuster..drugs. Many companies closed..antibiotic programs, and the...
Another antibiotics company bites the dust: Nabriva (Good news for superbugs. Bad news for humans. Further indictment of the "market.") https://t.co/EnuYftfJsS
"Existing antibiotics are becoming less effective as bacteria evolve, but the market that should be developing new antibacterial medicines is failing..There are only 8 antibiotics...