In a strange twist in the investigation into the origins of the virus, it has been discovered that a key genetic sequence in the virus – one which codes for the unique furin cleavage site, which helps make the virus highly transmissible in humans – was patented by Moderna in 2016, though for an unrelated purpose. MailOnline has the story.
Fresh suspicion that Covid may have been tinkered with in a lab emerged today after scientists found genetic material owned by Moderna in the virus’s spike protein.
They identified a tiny snippet of code that is identical to part of a gene patented by the vaccine maker three years before the pandemic.
It was discovered in SARS-CoV-2’s unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good at infecting people and separates it from other coronaviruses.
The structure has been one of the focal points of debate about the virus’s origin, with some scientists claiming it could not have been acquired naturally.
The international team of researchers suggest[s] the virus may have mutated to have a furin cleavage site during experiments on human cells in a lab.
They claim there is a one-in-three-trillion chance Moderna’s sequence randomly appeared through natural evolution.
But there is some debate about whether the match is as rare as the study claims, with other experts describing it as a “quirky” coincidence rather than a “smoking gun”.
SARS-CoV-2 is the only coronavirus of its type with a furin cleavage site, which is coded by a sequence of 12 ‘letters’ and which allows its spike protein to be activated by a common enzyme called furin, improving its ability to spread between human cells. In the study in Frontiers in Virology, the researchers compared Covid’s genetic sequence to millions of sequenced proteins in an online database. They found that the virus shares a sequence of 19 ‘letters’, including the 12 for the furin cleavage site, with a genetic sequence owned by Covid mRNA vaccine-maker Moderna, which filed the patent in February 2016 as part of its cancer research division. The patented sequence is part of a gene called MSH3 that affects how damaged cells repair themselves in the body.
The researchers, led by Dr. Balamurali Ambati from the University of Oregon, write that the matching code may have originally been introduced to the SARS-CoV-2 genome through infected human cells expressing the MSH3 gene.
This might seem to be a smoking gun for a lab origin. However, the Mail quotes Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick University, who says the finding is interesting but not significant enough to suggest lab manipulation.
We’re talking about a very, very, very small piece made up of 19 nucleotides. Sometimes these things happen fortuitously, sometimes it’s the result of convergent evolution (when organisms evolve independently to have similar traits to adapt to their environment). It’s a quirky observation but I wouldn’t call it a smoking gun because it’s too small. It doesn’t get us any further with the debate about whether Covid was engineered.
Dr. Simon Clarke, a Microbiologist at Reading University, was likewise sceptical that the find was as rare as the study claims.
There can only be a certain number of [genetic combinations within] furin cleavage sites. They function like a lock and key in the cell, and the two only fit together in a limited number of combinations. So it’s an interesting coincidence but this is surely entirely coincidental.
Back in December when the discovery first surfaced, Bioinformatics Consultant Moreno Colaiacovo explained on Twitter why he too thought it a coincidence.
Someone found in a Moderna patent from 2017 a short nucleotide sequence that is identical to the one encoding for the furin cleavage site in SARS-CoV-2. While this may seem suspicious at first sight, I’ll try to explain why there’s ‘nothing to see here’.
First of all, the nucleotide sequence is really there. It is located in sequence 11652 from patent US 9587003, position 2733-2751 (reverse strand). The Genbank ID is KH664781.
The Moderna patent covers “modified polynucleotides for the production of oncology-related proteins and peptides”. In other words, these are RNA molecules that are used in cancer therapy, and were modified in order to improve the efficacy of treatment.
Sequence 11652 is annotated as “artificial”, however if we analyse it using BlastX, we find an almost perfect full-length match with NP_002430.3 (MSH3), which is a human protein involved in DNA repair. Clearly it makes sense, since the patent deals with cancer therapy.
Moreover, if we translate the sequence using a tool like ExPASy translate, we notice that the short sequence does not encode for PRRAR in this protein, but rather YVPAE (which is not a furin cleavage site). (The translation is from 5′ to 3′ in frame 1.)
In conclusion, despite the name ‘Moderna’, this sequence has nothing to do with furin cleavage sites, vaccines or coronaviruses. It is just an RNA molecule encoding for a human protein that, by chance, has a short stretch of nucleotides identical to SARS-CoV-2.
Still, interesting coincidence…
The Mail piece is worth reading in full.
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“It’s a coincidence Jim, but not as we know it”
Peter Dascak (EcoHealth Alliance), who collaborated with the Chinese in early 2020 to quash the lab-leak theory coming out at that time, said in 2015 –‘We need to increase public awareness of the need for countermeasures (to a global coronavirus outbreak) such as a global coronavirus vaccine. A key factor is media hype. Investors will follow if they see profit at the end of the process.’
In November 2019, Moderna had the vaccine developed, for a pathogen that had yet to appear. Investors were seeing profit at the end of the process.
They are willingly killing children, babies. You’ve got blood on your hands doctors. You may not pay on this earth but you WILL pay after you die
We have to call them out on this. They have to pay before they die! Any doctor who is injecting this shit without informed consent in writing from the patient is leaving himself open to being sued at least. They will then be left high and dry by the Medical Defence Union.
The problem is, people aren’t connecting illness to the injection. We have to make people aware. When someone tells you they’ve got shingles or breathing problems or tingling fingers or even cancer, your first question has to be “after which vaccination?” If enough people ask, it might sink in.
“people aren’t connecting illness to the injection. We have to make people aware. When someone tells you they’ve got shingles or breathing problems or tingling fingers or even cancer, your first question has to be “after which vaccination?” If enough people ask, it might sink in.”
You’d like to think so, but, sadly no. Or at least not in my personal experience. Maybe it is me and I’m just not doing it right. My mother has been very badly harmed by each of her jabs – in the space of 12 months she is a shadow of what she formerly was – and yet she keeps going back for more.
She got shingles after her second jab, and when I pointed out that there were a lot of cases of shingles occurring after jabbing the whole [all jabbed] family jumped down my throat. I realised at that point that there is no good in trying to help people who don’t want to be helped however much I love them and just want them to be well.
A LOT of people cannot cope, mentally I think, with the fact that they have volunteered for a procedure which has harmed… Read more »
It takes an untrustworthy rag like the Daily Mail to qualify something many of us knew about donkeys ago for DS to take it seriously and report it themselves.
At this rate it’ll not be until next year that they accept there hasn’t been a global pandemic since 2019. By which time it won’t matter anyway because we’ll probably have been obliterated by the Chinese Communists.
Morsel for Armageddon-watchers: Russian navy in Mediterranean heads for Tartus in Syria.
It’s all coming out now isn’t it?
“The blatant conspiracy” exposed in all its naked glory!
‘No, no …it’s all just a “coincidence” ‘- how much longer can they “hold the line” of this diabolical facade?
It can’t be true. I know that, because a Chinese lab would never cheat on a patent.
Absolute gold from Brendon O Connell, this is where its at!
109. Crazy New York Mother Takes On Israeli-Russian Espionage Ring (Dont try this at home…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsMongp7BA
“By chance” – my rear end. “Unrelated purpose” – ditto. That’s biowar research (and production) they’re talking about. And the specific development to which they refer probably wasn’t even so groundbreaking either, given that it was patented. I imagine a lot had been done before then. This could even have been a commercial spinoff from military research. There have been a hell of a lot of those.
SARS, of which SARSCoV2 is a variant of the same species, has been subject to AT LEAST 20 years of research by the major powers: secret military research both offensive and defensive. That is part of how really-existing “science” works, and it should be seen as obvious. No I don’t have direct evidence for it, but the circumstantial case should be accepted with 99.99% confidence.
It’s not going to take long before biowar, which has hardly been spoken about in “polite” circles for a very long time, is made to explode into public consciousness. The same may also be true of electronic warfare.
As I was typing this, I heard some cr*p-artist on BBC Radio 4 state that “we have to accept there will be a considerable degree of self-harm”. He was talking… Read more »
Key Genetic Sequence – a piece of something.
Perhaps this ‘coincidence’ is why NHS staff have started to call the heart damage issues they are having to treat Myo-coincidentalitis.
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I seem to be hearing the word ‘coincidence’ an awful lot lately.
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1484987210508255233
Kevin McKernan explains the counter argument.
So do/did the vaccines work against these modified viruses? I think I already know the answer but have they made things better, worse or no change after 2 years of house arrest, god knows how many billions, mental health issues, suicides etc.
One of the things that all should be wary of is saying that ‘that couldn’t happen in nature’.
Sometimes things DO happen in nature. Would you believe that a key protein involved in triggering cell division (studies of which won Professor Sir Paul Nurse the Nobel Prize) is so well conserved between fission yeast and humans that you can take the human protein and use it to restore normality to yeast mutants with deficient cdc2 proteins? Well, it is true. So if you can have incredible conservation of sequences between yeast and humans, you sure as heck can have conservation of sequences between two human viruses. Particularly if such sequences are critical to certain aspects of the viral life cycle.
One of the other interesting things to emerge from the DNA sequencing revolution was that the same function in nature can emerge via completely parallel evolutionary paths. So you find the same enzymatic function in two apparently totally dissimilar sequences. It’s called ‘convergent evolution’. It’s nothing new, I was taught it in my undergraduate biochemistry degree back in the mid 1980s.
I’m not saying this didn’t come from a laboratory mutation, I’m simply saying you should be careful before… Read more »
SARS-COV2 also has 3 HIV genes, and genes from a cone snail that injects neurotoxin into it’s prey.
You want to explain how a bat got together with a cone snail, that lives on the seabed, before catching/whist infected with HIV?
the 19n sequence most likely came from the cell lines used in serial passage GoF reseach. The FCS on it’s own is not the smoking gun, that’s only 12n, but together with the 7n it sure looks that way. They were trying to make HIV and Cancer vaccines, the paper trail is long and damning, as DRASTIC has been pointing out since the beginning. The cover-up is also well documented, and is arguably more damning.
JC Couey explains how in his stream with Charles Rixey last night
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1405895445
JAG_Docs_pt1_Og_WATERMARK_OVER_Redacted.pdf cover up background info leak
https://drasticresearch.org/
https://prometheusshrugged.substack.com/
“a tiny snippet of code – we’re talking about a very, very, very small piece made up of 19 nucleotides.”
Easily detected by the Innova lateral flow tests! I mean, the LFTs do let us all know it’s ‘Covid’ and not anything else…. right??
Is this the specific molecule that prevents DNA repair? If so, it’s the one that is likely to cause the most long term damage. It therefore serves a functional purpose, not just a random sequence.
On the same day Russia is ordered to invade Ukraine, nice timing.
LOL. What a day of ‘conspiracy theories’ coming true..
We’re talking about a very, very, very small piece made up of 19 nucleotides. Sometimes these things happen fortuitously, sometimes it’s the result of convergent evolution (when organisms evolve independently to have similar traits to adapt to their environment). It’s a quirky observation but I wouldn’t call it a smoking gun because it’s too small.
– Professor Lawrence Young
Jeff Childers picks up on the same quote from Young:
Government experts rushed to say it’s not THAT unlikely it could have happened by accident. Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick University, was quoted as saying, “It’s a quirky observation but I wouldn’t call it a smoking gun because it’s too small.” He was referring to the fact there were just 19 matching nucleotides out of several thousand, but what he missed is that they are in the exact same order as found in the Moderna patent, a highly unlikely scenario.
In my research to figure out which side is right, I read some compelling arguments that the sequence is really found in the human genome, so it’s not unique to Moderna’s patented sequence. Moderna patented something that already existed. The argument would be that it could have come from somewhere else. But… Read more »
2^19 is about 1 in 500,000
Surely 4^19 (the number of nucleotides) is the correct calculation – about 275 billion.
The question is whether that sequence confers a competitive advantage to viruses containing it over the random noise of the other 275 billion sequences?
If it does, you only need a few cycles of viral infection to turn 1 in 275 billion into 20% of all particles.
That’s how these ‘variants’ suddenly take over in a matter of weeks/months.
probably!
I think i divided by 2 (as it’s reversible) too early.
E-mail from a friend this morning:
Here is the news that Trudeau has backed down:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/immediate-emergency-situation-is-over-pm-trudeau-revokes-emergencies-act-1.5793047
A forensic dissection by Canadian Senator Don Plett of the motion for the Emergencies Act:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZO3OhqCUY
This may be why Trudeau has withdrawn the motion.
I haven’t yet watched it … too much material. I’ll watch this evening.
The genocidal criminality of Klaus Schwab’s Moderna and his other pharmaceutical companies might just pale into insignificance if the Ukraine situation gets out of hand. And, alarmingly, there are many signs that it may very well get totally out of hand.
This is a quote from Vladimir Putin in regards his “deNazification of the Ukraine”:
“Whoever tries to hinder us, and even more so to create threats for our country, for our people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to consequences that you have never experienced in your history. We are ready for any development of events. All necessary decisions in this regard have been made. I hope that I will be heard”.
Putin has basically warned the West that if he deems it necessary he’ll use nuclear weapons to protect the Russian homeland. I believe this warning is much more than simple sabre rattling.
Bear in mind that as NATO moved military forces up to Russia’s borders, these forces would have brought with them tactical nuclear weapons. The Kremlin will view battlefield nuclear weapons with a range of anything from 100- to 200 miles on Russia’s borders as a severe… Read more »
Schwab also boasted that Putin was his minion.
Yeah, that’s right.
I’ve theorised in previous posts that the Russia, Ukraine & West rivalry was nothing more than Schwab’s minions flexing their muscles at each other, and Schwab happy with this because it distracts from the COVID-19 genocide.
Hitler’s grandfather was supposed to be an Ashkenazi, which is of the same breed as Schwab and Soros.
Did you know that a member of the Dutch royal family gave the Nazi’s 60 thousand barrels of oil to invade the Netherlands? Or that chemical companies in Nazi Germany liaised closely with bigwigs in New York’s financial district throughout the war?
WWII wasn’t simply white-hats against black-hats, it was much more complicated than what school history teaches. And it started in a very similar way to the current territory dispute in the Ukraine.
Schwab and other Ashkenazi bigwigs won’t mind too much if it gets out of hand because it’s only us little people that will suffer. And, besides, the COVID-19 plandemic was a scheme to depopulate us anyway.
The Ashkenazi, Henry Kissinger, paved the way for Putin to get power in Russia. My hope is that Putin has turned against the Cabal and is now putting the… Read more »
The Nazis didn’t call themselves “Nazis”. That was a term of derision used by their opponents. “Nazi” as well as coming from “national socialist”, from which it was coined by analogy with “Sozi” for “social democrat”, was already in use as a mocking snob word for a stereotypical Bavarian Catholic peasant, a short form of the name “Ignatius”.
Is anybody reading this surprised that they didn’t already know it? Here’s another fact about the NSDAP that isn’t well-known: it was a party for men only.
Many true facts the wide recognition of which wouldn’t especially hurt anyone are still kept under wraps because those who are considered suitable characters for roles as “influencers” must have minds that “think” within very tightly defined boundaries.
When they hear something they didn’t already know, they MUST respond by “thinking” “that can’t be true because I would already have heard it”.
I once had an argument with a Church of England official who got really nasty with me when I told her that the signatories of the Magna Carta were all excommunicated for signing it. She just couldn’t process the information. She said she’d “read” “history” at Oxford and if it were true she’d… Read more »
Ashkenazi in German is Aschkenasisch.
Naczi was a derogatory term used by opponents (Communists) of Hitler to refer to his National Socialists party. It was a term which was ultimately coined by German Communists.
Groups of people came into Europe from the Caspian Sea area around 700 A.D. One tribe which came in was the Ashkenazi, and another tribe which came to Europe at around the same time were of the same racial grouping as the Ashkenazi. These two cousin tribes had a long history of rivalries between them that stretched back centuries.
Hitler is reputed to have been descended from the Ashkenazi tribe via his grandfather. The German descendants of the rival tribe mentioned above are reputed to have been predominantly involved in Communism in 1920/30s Germany.
A school of thought is that the German Communists took the end pronunciation of Aschkenasisch, which is “nasisch” and which in English became shorted to Nazi, as a means to insult Hitler’s ancestry and as a means to hint to German supporters of Hitler that he was not a full-blooded German.
The German Communists at this time would have had to have been subtle in pointing out Hitler’s non-German ancestry, because the… Read more »
I for one (think) I know what is motivating Putin and agree with you that NATO and its nuclear capability was (already had) gotten way too close to Russia’s borders. Most Americans will probably end up supporting war with Russia (or are at least outraged at this invasion). However, if Russia had military bases in Canada or Mexico (or Cuba), Americans would be rightfully concerned.
BTW, How in the world does the price of gold plunge $52/ounce in about one minute (at the opening of U.S. precious metals “markets”) at a time when all the headlines say that WWIII is imminent … and also when prices are going up seemingly by 10 percent per month? My takeaway: As it turns out, the threat of global warfare and run-away inflation are actually bearish for the “safe haven” assets. Go figure.
When I looked at the movements of the gold price over several decades I reached the conclusion that it is subject to very powerful long-term manipulation that cannot be deduced from the movement of indicators in the rest of the economy.
The real question is why anyone even tolerates Schwab in the first place? Does he have his own private nukes? Does he have his own private chemical/biological weapons?? What is it that this lunatic possesses that makes Bill Gates kiss his ass?
That’s what amazes me. How Schwab hasn’t had the last millimetre of every part of his life dissected by the world’s media?
He’s clearly pretty deranged, yet everyone seems to defer to him.
Why?
Why? “Family connections”?
Even in parts of the Sceptic community I see references to Putin having been part of Schwab’s Young Global Leaders programme. Maybe, maybe not. Let’s say he was perhaps involved at some point but for his own benefit and not Schwab’s.
Putin therefore knows exactly what’s coming and has prepared accordingly. Russian intelligence will certainly have been deployed against Schwab and doubtless has its own people embedded and reporting back.
It would be extremely stupid to under -estimate Mr Putin.
If Schwab is destroyed by his own hubris Putin simply walks in and takes over.
In this podcast from Whitney Webb-Unlimited, Moscow based journalist, Riley Waggaman, talks about how Putin seems to be fully on board with Schwab’s COVID-19 plandemic and the gene therapies, and also about how Russia is working with JP Morgan on a cryptocurrency.
You can’t get any person or entity that is more Klaus Schwab or Cabal than JP Morgan.
Perhaps Putin has drawn the line at Critical Race Theory, transgender rubbish and the importation of the Third World into his part of Europe? That Putin will take what benefits Russia from Schwab, but will reject the rest?
There’s also the fact that Putin has exiled many very wealthy Russians (Ashkenazi?) and many of these came to the UK and made large donations to the Tory Party, and got residential permits. Alex Thomson, in the UK Column, talks about this.
It just might be the case that these very wealthy Russian oligarchs that donated generously to the Tory Party were part (Ashkenazi) of Schwab’s Cabal and Putin got rid of them. Time will tell.
By the way, I’ve noticed that my original post has already got four downvotes. I suspect it will get many more as the evening goes on, and… Read more »
or maybe a convinient war was the required distraction for both “sides” once the wheels fell off the great narrative.
Could well be so, and like WWI, will last for years instead of the troops being home by Christmas. And then give rise to a second war.
As long as the money men run the show, very stupid things will be done. And the sheep will keep on suffering until they get the brains and guts to get rid of the money men and their puppet politicians.
As if to underline this point: This guy absoloutely nails it
“Putin just bailed out the central banks”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20O7dB89CZk
The alliance between Jewish mafia bosses in Russia (who are the majority at the top level) and ethnic Russian mafia bosses (one can also mention Chechens, Tatars, Georgians, etc. at a less influential level) has held for a long time. Putin’s background as head of the FSB gave him a bird’s eye view of this, or perhaps you could say a Bonapartist view, because while the mafia is the mafia it still doesn’t f*** with the renamed KGB.
There hasn’t been a large-scale mafia war in Russia but there could have been. “Democracy” is just a load of old boll*cks that is dear to the kind of Muscovite “Islingtonian” who speaks to US and British “journalists” at dinner parties. (Maybe they dream of one day staying in expensive hotels which DON’T have shaven headed thugs doing the “security”.) The truth is that for the last 30 years if another power wanted to knock the stuffing out of Russia from the inside, mafia war would be the way to go. And they haven’t managed, not even using figures such as Berezovsky (backed by the British elite), Khodorkovsky (backed by the German one), etc.
Ukraine now – which is just as much… Read more »
I agree with you.
Putin is the only well educated, gender secure and rational adult in the room.
What better way to learn Schwab’s devious, contaminating methods than from the inside? After all, Putin was in ” Soviet Intelligence”.
“Putin has basically warned the West that if he deems it necessary he’ll use nuclear weapons to protect the Russian homeland.”
That’s not new and should not be a surprise.
Meanwhile, here is Theresa May:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94vl0qo02zI
The research, development, production, and stockpiling of strategic nuclear weapons have never been anything other than crimes against humanity. They are designed to obliterate cities.
“Strategic nuclear weapons” should be a phrase that incites the same emotions as “Auschwitz”, but sadly for all but a very few people it doesn’t.
You accuse me of needlessly rehashing well known information and then go on to say this:
If there was ever a needless rehashing of well known information, you’ve just done it there.
“The eventual climax will be very unpleasant”. do you mean we will all be engulfed in very nasty, stickily toxic white stuff?
The question is: “Will we be happy?”
You’re always so smutty, David. Does make me smirk though.
Synthetic AIDS yeah?
Gain of Function, anyone?
Nothing to see here, I am sure.
Dr David Martin in the film Plandemic showed the patents back in 2020.
Create the virus.
Create the vaccine.
Job done.
Pocket the proceeds.
Side effect: wrecked world.
“Dr. Simon Clarke, a Microbiologist at Reading University”… Wellcome Trust investor, major grant recipient, professional liar and fully paid up shill for the pharmaceutical industry, says….
As far as I know there are SEVENTEEN different elements in the virus that are patented.
Ergo, lab leak is the only possible reason for what happened.
Depends when they were patented, whether they were patented based on identical motifs in other sequences etc.
Given the obsession with patenting nowadays, it would be easy for enormous number of coronavirus patents to have emerged the past 20 years, many of which cross over onto SARS-CoV2 sequences.
“Lab origin” follows. “Lab leak” doesn’t.
It’s a loooooong chain. Coincidence? (I don’t think so but it would be nice if a specialist would confirm/deny).