Virtual Program—The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora's box at Wuhan?

In this June 9 Bulletin program, science journalist Nicholas Wade and Bulletin editor-in-chief John Mecklin joined Bulletin president and CEO Rachel Bronson to discuss Wade's groundbreaking article, "The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora's box at Wuhan?"

In this conversation, you will hear about how the article sharing the program name came to be and why it sparked renewed investigations of a possible lab leak.  

[jsuebersax]

This kind of responsible response helps maintain/restore faith in human nature. Thank you to all concerned.

[johnfarmer]

33:00 There is also the techniques of Gibson Assembly and Reverse Genetics 2 that can be used to manipulate a virus without leaving a marker.

[johnfarmer]

If these guys think that GOF is going to go away they are mistaken. If the CCP and Russia is going to pursue this, we must pursue it too.

[jacobopm]

The conclusion is that some research needs to be control and China will need to pay and apologies for the handling of the leak.