Alina Chan, Matt Ridley

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The Search for the Origin of Covid-19

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind.

Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008487515
• Artikelnr.: 62045881

Autorenporträt

Dr. Alina Chan is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in medical genetics, synthetic biology, and vector engineering. At the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Dr. Chan is currently creating next generation vectors for human gene therapy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Chan began to investigate problems relevant to finding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and in parallel spearheaded the development of the COVID-19 CoV Genetics browser for scientists worldwide to rapidly track virus lineages and mutations by locations and date ranges of interest.

Matt Ridley is the author of How Innovation Works, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything and Genome, among other books on science and economics. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and he has been a columnist for the Telegraph, The Times and the Wall Street Journal. He sits on the science and technology select committee of the House of Lords.