January 4, 2021 - The Baric Lab came to be known ... two top experts on the genetic interplay between bat and human coronaviruses, began collaborating in 2015....

February 6, 2023 - Shi could only shuffle spikes into an existing backbone (i.e. WIV1). Per Baric, Shi’s lab “developed their own molecular clone, based on WIV1, which is a bat coronavirus. And into that backbone, they shuffled in the spike genes of other ...

July 29, 2022 - Shi Zhengli has spent years at the Wuhan Institute of Virology researching coronaviruses that live in bats. Her work has come under fire as the world tries to understand where covid-19 came from.

July 29, 2022 - Meanwhile, Shi’s team was attempting similar tinkering in her own lab in a project funded by the US National Institutes of Health, which aimed to probe the genetic ingredients that could allow bat viruses to cause SARS-like diseases in humans. But while Baric focused on the human pathogen SARS-CoV-1 in the Nature Medicine paper, Shi used only its bat relatives—mostly WIV1, the first bat coronavirus the team had isolated. Their real-world risk to humans was unknown. By the time the pandemic broke out, her team had created a total of a dozen or so chimeric viruses by swapping WIV1’s spike with its counterpart from newly identified sequences of bat coronaviruses, only a handful of which could infect human cells in a petri dish. There were more surprises in store. In an unpublished experiment, released by the NIH in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by The Intercept, the researchers tested the ability of three such chimeras to infect mice expressing human ACE2.

October 16, 2022 - ‘Dani’ received a call from a 15-year friend and Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) colleague Dr Shi Zhengli. By October 2019, Shi was back home in Wuhan after a busy month of hosting conferences and traveling to Sweden, Africa, and Paris. Shi’s claim to fame was finding the precursor to the first SARS outbreak, a tiny bat located in a Chinese cave 1000 miles southwest of Wuhan. ... Shi was probably curious about the vaccine trial results on her prized possession. Over the past decade, Shi learned how to keep the Chinese horseshoe bat alive in the Wuhan biolabs. The small, gregarious, insect-eating bats are notoriously picky eaters, requiring hand feeding each bat a worm twice a day, which is like a “puppet show.” · WIV patents for a ” worm-eating bat cage” and “artificial breeding method for wild insect-eating bats” · Upon hearing Dani's bad news, Shi probably assumed this lab-acquired infection could be easily contained by contact tracing.

September 16, 2020 - After the work stopped in the US, the Chinese moved forward with the project and ran research and development in Wuhan at the Wuhan Virology Center. From Shi Zhengli’s papers and resume, it is clear that they successfully isolated the virus in the lab and were actively experimenting with species specie transmission. It’s also important to note that back in 2017 we had solid intelligence about a viral leak in a high security Chinese virology R&D center that resulted in the SARS virus getting out and killing people. This information provides a basis that contradicts the theory that COVID-19 is a variant that just magically mutated in a bat in the wild and then jumped to a human when they ate bat soup. The article was in Chinese but has been translated. In the article from December 2017, Dr Shi was interviewed and shared the following: Based on Dr.

April 23, 2020 - From Shi Zhengli’s papers and resume, it is clear that they successfully isolated the virus in the lab and were actively experimenting with species <-> specie transmission. It’s also important to note that back in 2017 we had solid intelligence ...

May 5, 2020 - Dr. Ralph S. Baric was identified in the letter. After the work stopped in the US, the Chinese moved forward with the project and ran research and development in Wuhan at the Wuhan Virology Center. From Shi Zhengli’s papers and resume, it is clear that they successfully isolated the virus in the lab and were actively experimenting with species <-> specie transmission. It’s also important to note that back in 2017 we had solid intelligence about a viral leak in a high security Chinese virology R&D center that resulted in the SARS virus getting out and killing people. This information provides a basis that contradicts the theory that COVID-19 is a variant that just magically mutated in a bat in the wild and then jumped to a human when they ate bat soup. The article was in Chinese but has been translated. In the article from December 2017, Dr Shi was interviewed and shared the ...

April 23, 2020 - Dr. Ralph S. Baric was identified in the letter. After the work stopped in the US, the Chinese moved forward with the project and ran research and development in Wuhan at the Wuhan Virology Center. From Shi Zhengli’s papers and resume, it is clear that they successfully isolated the virus in the lab and were actively experimenting with species <-> specie transmission. It’s also important to note that back in 2017 we had solid intelligence about a viral leak in a high security Chinese virology R&D center that resulted in the SARS virus getting out and killing people. This information provides a basis that contradicts the theory that COVID-19 is a variant that just magically mutated in a bat in the wild and then jumped to a human when they ate bat soup. Today we have obtained an article from the past where Dr. Shi was interviewed on her work related to the coronavirus that was obtained from bats.

April 26, 2020 - Dr. Ralph S. Baric was identified in the letter. After the work stopped in the US, the Chinese moved forward with the project and ran research and development in Wuhan at the Wuhan Virology Center. From Shi Zhengli’s papers and resume, it is clear that they successfully isolated the virus in the lab and were actively experimenting with species <-> specie transmission. It’s also important to note that back in 2017 we had solid intelligence about a viral leak in a high security Chinese virology R&D center that resulted in the SARS virus getting out and killing people. This information provides a basis that contradicts the theory that COVID-19 is a variant that just magically mutated in a bat in the wild and then jumped to a human when they ate bat soup. After the work stopped in the US, the Chinese moved forward with the project and ran research and development in Wuhan at the Wuhan Virology Center.

September 23, 2021 - Images were parading on the screen showing researchers working with bats in the lab, one researcher feeding a bat a worm and another with a bat hanging off the bill of a hat. Video shared also claims to prove that Wuhan Lab researchers are “out capturing bats” in the wild for the Wuhan lab. Sharri said, “In another image, there are mouse cages-hundreds of them. We know that the Wuhan Institute of virology was using humanized mice for experiments to see which coronaviruses could infect humans.” She said that the Wuhan researchers used “the humanized mice to make viruses that couldn’t previously infect humans, do exactly that.” · The National Pulse first reported an uncovered speech from the University of North Carolina researcher Dr. Ralph Baric, a favorite collaborator of Wuhan’s ‘bat woman’ Shi Zhengli, speaking about his admiration for gain-of-function research.

June 15, 2021 - The leader of those researchers ... “Bat Lady,” who “mounted frequent expeditions to the bat-infested caves of Yunnan in southern China and collected around a hundred different bat coronaviruses,” Wade reported: Shi then ...

March 13, 2024 - The proposal was ultimately denied by DARPA. However, Project DEFUSE may have been funded by the Chinese government and executed by researchers at the Wuhan Lab of Virology. The Washington Times reported, "Nonetheless, ...

One of Baric’s co-authors was Zhengli Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), where Sars-CoV-2 was first isolated after people in the city began turning up in hospital with a mysterious respiratory disease in late December 2019.

In two opinion pieces published by the Times—one co-authored by virologists W. Ian Lipkin and Ralph Baric, the other by sociologist Zeynep Tufekci—the paper denigrates and casts doubt upon the latest groundbreaking coronavirus research by Dr. Shi Zhengli, the world-leading expert on bat coronaviruses who works at the Wuhan lab, revealing far more about their own geopolitical agenda than scientific inquiry. Rather than engaging with the substantive findings of Shi’s team—whose work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) identified a novel bat coronavirus (HKU5-CoV-2) with zoonotic potential—the Times’ contributors fixate on unsubstantiated bio-safety concerns. The study, published in Cell on February 21, 2025, details how HKU5-CoV-2 binds to human ACE2 receptors, a trait shared with SARS-CoV-2 but distinct from other Merbecoviruses that typically use DPP4.

June 4, 2021 - Although the contents of the attachment are unknown, the title, it's claimed that is likely a reference to Dr. Ralph Baric a US-based virologist, who had performed US government-funded research in collaboration with Wuhan Institute scientist Dr. Shi Zhengli, who specializes in coronavirus transmission in bats. In other emails from early in the pandemic, British medical researcher Dr. Jeremy Farrar, who was involved in early top secret conference calls discussing the virus, shared an article from the website ZeroHedge suggesting that the virus could be a bioweapon. On April 17, 2020 Fauci announced that it was believed the virus had emerged from bats in China. In an email sent two days after the announcement, Dr.

December 5, 2022 - This gain-of-function experiment ... · In March 2018, Shi partnered with Baric and a longtime collaborator, Peter Daszak, on a $14 million grant proposal to genetically manipulate bat coronaviruses to see how they might cause pandemics...

August 1, 2025 - Zhengli and her team had uploaded a scientific publication to a preprint server. It was their own analysis of the new viral genome, compared to other SARS-related coronaviruses her lab had specialized in. Fifteen years of trying to figure out where SARS came from had yielded a sizable collection of bat samples for analysis. From thousands of samples, mostly bat saliva, urine, or poo, they would extract RNA — the less stable little brother of DNA — and send it to sequencing over the years. Their goal, like a DNA test we humans might do today, was to catalog the wider SARS-related viral family. With most samples, they could only look for a mere fingerprint of the degraded viral genomes, as most viral particles would be chewed up by enzymes, inactivated, or otherwise rendered dysfunctional in these samples. Naturally, they also wanted to have complete viruses. Shi Zhengli’s lab continuously attempted to isolate intact virus particles from some of these samples to grow and study them in th