Matt Ridley
Reporter at Freelance
Biologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.
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6 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Matt Ridley
Figure 1. The furin cleavage site insertion in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, with codon and amino acid sequence differences from the two closest bat viruses highlighted. Other alignments are possible. That the furin cleavage site is a novel feature in SARS-CoV-2 is suggested by a point mutation in the virus, D614G, which appeared first in human beings in early 2020 and quickly became widespread[].
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Matt Ridley
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2 weeks ago |
rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com | Matt Ridley
Although the world has largely moved on from Covid-19, a lot of trust was destroyed including – unfortunately and worryingly – in science itself. I can think of few things worse for progress than for the public to lose faith in science, which is why I've made it something of a personal mission to get to the bottom of the origin of Covid-19.
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2 weeks ago |
rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com | Matt Ridley
The announcement last week that a nine-month-old baby in Philadelphia has been cured of a rare genetic disorder by gene editing is a great moment in medical history. For the first time, doctors have altered a gene inside many cells in the liver of a living human being using CRISPR, the molecular tool borrowed from microbes that can home in on particular DNA sequences and in some cases alter them.
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1 month ago |
thespectator.com | Matt Ridley
“I am officially launching my new company: Cathy Medicine. We will eradicate diseases in future generations through germline gene editing.” This is one of several strongly – and strangely – worded tweets sent in recent weeks from the X account of He Jiankui, a Chinese scientist who served a three-year prison sentence for gene-editing two human embryos. Those embryos are now people: seven-year old twin girls living under the pseudonyms Lulu and Nana. “Good morning bitches,” Dr. He wrote on April 16.
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