{"id":163382,"date":"2023-05-05T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-sars-like-cluster-of-circulating-bat-coronaviruses-shows-potential-for-human-emergence-medicine"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:22:42","slug":"a-sars-like-cluster-of-circulating-bat-coronaviruses-shows-potential-for-human-emergence-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-sars-like-cluster-of-circulating-bat-coronaviruses-shows-potential-for-human-emergence-medicine","title":{"rendered":"A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-sars-like-cluster-of-circulating-bat-coronaviruses-shows-potential-for-human-emergence-medicine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WHO says covid is no longer an emergency, yet does not say where covid originated from. No one knows. What I know is that covid is a cute name for SARS\/Coronavirus. Something made in a lab at UNC Chapel Hill with Ralph Baric and his collegue from Wuhan China which he shared his gain of function research with. However the <i>Nature<\/i> article published in 2015 has this disclaimer, yet there is no animal origin after more than 3 years. So what do we believe?<\/p>\n<p>\u201c30 March 2020 Editors\u2019 note, March 2020: We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve <i>in vitro<\/i> titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. ACE2 \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ralph Baric, Vineet Menachery and colleagues characterize a SARS-like coronavirus circulating in Chinese horseshoe bats to determine its potential to infect primary human airway epithelial cells, cause disease in mice and respond to available therapeutics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WHO says covid is no longer an emergency, yet does not say where covid originated from. No one knows. What I know is that covid is a cute name for SARS\/Coronavirus. Something made in a lab at UNC Chapel Hill with Ralph Baric and his collegue from Wuhan China which he shared his gain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}