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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.81 · baric_ti:utt:00719

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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
Topics
Natural origin / zoonotic spillover
I did actually make a molecular clone of a pangolin GD strain, and we published it --

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I don't know. The authors were from Chinese groups. We could find the paper, but that was the first report. In fact, the whole genesis around the pangolin strains, these pangolin strains, is confusing because the group that published first had one sequence. And then, if I understand it correctly, those sequences and samples were picked up, I believe, by WIV researchers, or another group, and they published a completely different set of sequences. So one paper is in a very infrequently read journal, and then the other was in Nature.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    What's the other journal?
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Again, I can't remember. So there's an DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com issue about -- it's not clear why they found two different virus sequences in the same samples.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    I did actually make a molecular clone of a pangolin GD strain, and we published it --
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Can I have the document back? I think we showed you the part that is relevant to our discussion. You look too interested over there. [Laughter.]
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Are we peeking?
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Yep, go ahead.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 William Henderson open
    Just a clarification. On this email that you just reviewed, did you write this?

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