US Analyzes Genetic Data From Wuhan Laboratory To Determine Origin Of Coronavirus

U.S. intelligence agencies investigate large amount of DNA data from Chinese lab in Wuhan which could be the key to discovering the origins of the coronavirus as soon as they can be deciphered.

This is a significant number of genetic blueprints of virus samples studied at the Wuhan lab, where some US experts believe the source of the covid-19 outbreak may have been., the channel reported on Friday CNN.

The US outlet, which cites sources of people familiar with the study, said it is not clear how and when US intelligence agencies accessed this genetic database.

But he added that the “machines” involved in the creation and processing of this type of genetic data from viruses are usually connected to external servers, located in the cloud, which leaves open the possibility that they have been hacked. .

Translating this large amount of data poses many challenges for experts, and as such, intelligence agencies have deployed supercomputers in the Ministry of Energy’s national laboratories, involving 17 elite government research institutes.

They also admit that they struggle to have trained personnel to decrypt the data.

Yes indeed, Intelligence agencies not only need government scientists who are sufficiently trained to interpret complex gene sequencing data and have the appropriate security clearance, but they must also speak Mandarin., since the information is written in Chinese with a specialized vocabulary, assured the channel.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, last May, ordered intelligence services to deliver a report on the origin of the covid-19 pandemic within 90 days.

Biden reacted to speculation about the origin of the coronavirus in this way, after the theory that it appeared in a Wuhan lab once again gained integers.

This announcement by Biden came after a U.S. intelligence report said several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and required hospitalization, as published on the Wall Street newspaper at the start of this week.

U.S. officials leading this work hope this information will help answer the question of how the virus got from animals to humans.

Unraveling this mystery is key to ultimately determining whether COVID-19 escaped the lab or was transmitted to humans from animals, multiple sources have said CNN.

Researchers, both inside and outside the US government, have long sought genetic data from 22,000 virus samples that were being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

But Chinese authorities removed this data from the internet in September 2019, and since then China has refused to disclose this and other raw information on the first cases of the coronavirus to the World Health Organization and the United States. United. CNN.

(With information from EFE)

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