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by Operyl 2240 days ago
What? Am I missing something here?

EDIT: I see, you fell victim to CNET's "infinite scrolling." You scrolled into another article. Furthermore, they're not sequencing human DNA in that article you stumbled on, they're sequencing the virus. Furthermore, Facebook doesn't own this, it's a group funded by Mark's charitable donations.
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codethief 2240 days ago
> Furthermore, they're not sequencing human DNA in that article you stumbled on, they're sequencing the virus. Furthermore, Facebook doesn't own this, it's a group funded by Mark's charitable donations.

AFAIK it's the group led by Joe DeRisi[1]. For those interested in further details, there[2] is an absolutely fantastic interview with DeRisi that's worth every minute of your time.

[1] http://derisilab.ucsf.edu/

[2] https://www.tested.com/old-categories/podcasts/854328-scarie...

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dmix 2239 days ago
That podcast show was excellent, thanks for sharing.

Very relevant discussion of viruses with his snake story and randomly finding Ebola variations and referencing his work on coronavirus (show was from 2018).

Id love to hear his views on the recent stuff that's happened.

This is the perfect kind of guy you want to give lots of money to do random research and see what he comes up with. I'm happy Zuckerberg found him.

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