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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.41 · baric_ti:utt:00277

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Date
2026-04-10 09:00 (day precision)
Type
transcript segment · interview
recipient
Christina Salazar, Harry Kazenoff, David T. Lambeth III, William Henderson, Clark Ervin, Jake Greenberg
speaker
Ralph S. Baric
I don't believe there's a formalized process for DNA on a filter paper. If there was a pathogen, for example, then there are intricate processes involved.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    No. I mean, by the time she sent it to us we'd already synthesized the genes and had them and started DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com to make viruses by that time, so we didn't ever actually use the plasma.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And so do you have to report this kind of stuff to NIH if they're funding portions of a grant, or the whole grant? Because we're aware of --
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    This is before or after? Certainly the NIH knows because a paper, a progress report will have the existence of the viruses that are there. And then it's published, and NIH has access to the paper, as well. So they get this information, yes.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    But it's not something that you --
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    I don't believe there's a formalized process for DNA on a filter paper. If there was a pathogen, for example, then there are intricate processes involved.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    What about for a mouse model?
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Intricate.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    So do you have to get it approved?
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    You have to get all kinds of approval from China, and you have to get approval to ship -- well, the person who did that in my lab at the time did all that paperwork. But you had to have export approvals to send the stuff, and so it took -- all I remember is it took about a year and a half to get all the paperwork done to ship the mice. DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com

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