and to carry out the genetic patterns, and increased resistance. a smart decision, developing vaccines, maybe we can do it in a year, i was talking to very senior, smart scientists in los angeles, he didn't know if we could ever achieve -- george is on this call, george the scientist, developing surveillance systems in them last passage. the incredible science that we have the science comes with very significant ethical challenge, every technology could be abused. the onus is on us to figure out how to optimize the benefit before the harm. that will be hard enough. we live in an abstract world where we could make the smartest decisions possible. we live in a world, i write about this in the book, defined by the political context in which we live. we see that in the political failures, the first 3 weeks of this outbreak to get on top of this crisis, the failure in the united states, tests to have adequate information that could be provided to the american people. there is a failure over decades to build a world health organization that would resourc

concurs that the covid-19 with the wide scientific consensus that covid-19 virus wasn't manmade or genetically modified. the statement going on to say, they'll continue to examine whether the outbreak through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in wuhan. later the president was asked about it. let's listen. >> have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the wuhan institute of virology was the original of this virus? >> yes, i have. yes, i have. >> what give you a high degree of confidence that this originated from wuhan institute of virology? >> i can't tell you that. i'm not allowed to tell that. >> mr. secretary, have you seen anything that gives you high confidence that it originated in that wuhan lab? >> martha, there's enormous evidence that's where this began. we have said from the beginning, this virus originated in wuhan, china, i think the whole world can see now, remember, china has a history of infecting the world and running substandard laboratories. these aren't the first times that we have h

a virus is little more than a collection of genetic information either are an a or a d.n.a. protected by a protein coat which is sometimes covered by in an outer fatty the layer viruses are not viewed as full fledged life forms because they don't make their own energy they they have to steal it to replicate the viruses have to invade living cells like those in your respiratory tract they're able to dock on to specific receptors on the cells or membrane and they're either absorbed or they inject their genetic code into its interior now once inside the invader hijacks cellular machinery to churn elop more viruses which which burst out of the infected cell to infect others that whole process and how your immune system deals with that is what we call viral infection and disease. scientists think to the originated in bats does it kill them as well or if they adapted to live with it bats or are amazing in lots of ways not not least because of their immune systems many studies that show that although they can carry many viruses they somehow seem to be quite resistant to the disease

maderna and -- are also involved in this research and importantly never before has a genetically altered vaccine made it to market but phizer believes it could have a vaccine within four months lester >> all right, tom costello, exciting news, thank you. >>> we're seeing more of the ripple effect on the food industry meat supplies down, prices going up and one of the country's best known fast food chains now out of beef in some of its restaurants. we get details now from nbc's gabe gutierrez. >>> tonight at some wendy's restaurants and across social media a burning question >> where's the beef? >> reporter: the fast food giant is the latest company hit hard by the pandemic because of its reliance on fresh beef >> out of patties? >> yeah. >> reporter: it's yanking burgers off the menu in some locations and many states across the country. one analyst estimates nearly a fifth of the chain's restaurants are out of beef. >> crazy the time we're living in now. >> reporter: but it comes after some grocery chains limited meat purchases nationwide many meat and poultry plants have temporarily shu

back in 2013 we went to iceland to a company called decode genetics, who were doing genetic research on what is a pretty unusual country. see, iceland has a record of its people's ancestry going back 1000 years. and therefore it has some idea of who shares genes with who. icelanders have also been donating blood to the company for years, which is then deep frozen in this blood bank, so it can be used for future research into what genes may make people resistant or susceptible to certain diseases. and now that is paying off in spades. i spoke to the director of decode earlier, and he told me that having sequenced the genes of half the population, he has had a massive head start in trying to work out why the coronavirus affects some people worse than others. this team has been working together for almost a quarter of a century and it feels like everything else we have done, it feels like merely a preparation for this. we have an enormous amount of data on the people who got infected. we are in a privileged position to look at the genetics of the patients and see how the genetics influe

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right now we think about genetics . we tend to think about it in the context of healthcare because that's our primary interaction. but we don't have a disease genome. we don't have a healthcare genome. we have a human genome sardines are in many ways the blueprint for what we have at least the potential that these arrange a possibility so we're going to be experiencing genetics outside of the realm of healthcare which is already having through direct consumer genetics but it's going to get much bigger and it's going to touch a tougher more challenging issues like identity. parenting. and then perhaps the most profound application or among the most profound will be how these technologies change not just the way we make babies and will shift towards more of that option of idea and embryo screening and gabby's amazing book is coming out in august talking about this. but also it will change ultimately and over time the nature of the babies meaning. so this is this very, very profound conversation and it feels like this is a

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we are in a privileged position to look at the genetics of the patients and see how the genetics influences the probability of getting infected and the probability of getting seriously ill when you become infected. decode has now tested nearly 1a% of the population for the coronavirus, the highest in any country. that has really informed our understanding of covid—19. for example he says that countries —— contrary to some reports it seems that nearly eve ryo ne reports it seems that nearly everyone who has the disease does eventually display symptoms. and the race is now on to understand why those symptoms arrange so widely from the very mild to the very severe. is it because they have previously quarter different coronavirus and develop some immunity? or is it to do with different strains of the viruses itself? viruses naturally mutate as they travel from one person to another, and as this one has spread, it has morphed into many different strains that can be identified from its genetic data, and which are being shared by scientists across the world. what is not known at the moment i

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it was not clear that we can recover any genetic material from the samples. we had to work out techniques and continue e to refine the teciques to extracts nucleic accidents, dna in aren't a from the samples. we started this project in 1995, it took over a year to find the first positive case. to worork other techniques and make sure that we could find influenza. once we had found the first posive, and we started to generate sequence and compared to don't influenza viruses, we are convinced we found the 1918 virus. we are concerns that there would be inadequate amounts of material available to us to sequen the whole virus from that material. >> in march of 1997, in science news, that it was 1918 pandemic virus found. it's whole sequence had been discovered. i wrote a letter saying, if you need more specimens let me know and i will go back to aska, i've been there before, i know where it is and can go back. i didn't hear anything. i thought well, he thinks i'm crazy. he happened to be on vacation, so he didn't get his mail. >> we e extremely excited about the

some farmers do not want to get genetically engineered feet . and's really concerning problem for the future. were talking a lot about ran up right now but i really think that dicamba is the next big story. steve: thank you and so much more here. but i have an eye on the clock now i will move over here. i think your excerpts and your book proposal was a reminder of what a decade in 1974 starting with penn state and ending with in the 70s, events like stage one bombing after another but this was an enormous prices that as you point out, and remember if it was in your proposal but when you explained to people with this book was about, they would often say why has notebook of been written about this before. i think please remind us what it was exactly. as simply as possible. when and where and what happened. bartow: in three days, in march 1, 9779 through 11, about 40 hours in total where three locations in washington dc, were taken over by three groups of armed men. and all from the same group. it took about 100 and are 1250 hostages. these three

so if they can reprogram the genetic code every time there's a variation and then come up with a new vaccine, that could go a long way towards allowing all of us to resume our lives. i'm tom costello in washington. back to you. >>> the dmv announced plans to reopen its offices as soon as this month. but under new restrictions. the opening will roll out in phases phases. "the sacramento bee" reports workers will be required to wear protection. dmv is rolling out new online services including title transfers and registration renewals. >>> a federal judge is upholding california's ban on church services. the judge says the governor's ban during the pandemic does not violate the constitutional right for churches to gather. this comes after a church in lodi kept holding services in spite of legal action. the landlord ended up changing the locks on the door so the congregation could not gather. >>> now details on a hearing in oakland that could have granted more emergency leave to part-time and gig workers. last night the virtual city council meeting didn't happen due to the requirement of

. >> do genetics play a big role in who dies from covid-19? jason: i think that's an important question, and we are investigating a variety of different types of genetic analyses. there is very important differences in viral genetics. are there differences in strains? we have heard of strains that come from china, strains that come from europe. more importantly is our host genetics. how does our system respond? what we are seeing is evidence of individuals that they have some form of weakened immunity. a less ofwhat we call a strong cytokine storm, meaning the immune system does not respond as briskly, so they are actually the ones somewhat protected in moving forward to the need for mechanical ventilation. when the immune system does not act as briskly, you are not overwhelmed by its response. it is not the virus that does its thing, it is the immune system's response to how it responds to the virus. francine: agar also disparities because of gender and race? howe are, -- if there are, can we protect those at risk? jason: we are seeing data t

what t in their genetics is s allowing t them to that? and ththen could w we hars that information t that we're discoverining to basically build reresilience i into conserervind grgrowing the species inin the future? aquilino: our first year of getting this program here at uc dadavis bodega m marine laborat, we only had about t 30 total animals in captivivity. our fift spawning season, we e created about 20 m more. that t wasn't g to save ththe species,s, but the next y year, we crcreated about, the e year after that, a few thousand, and in this room, wewe have about 30,000 white abalone, well over what is left in the wild. we want as many as possible to survive in order to ensure the future of this species. hill: krisistin aquilino is thee lead scientist whoho has been charged with trying to bring the endangered white a abalone back from the brinknk of extinction. the prproject has bebeen remarky susuccessful, , but an intntereg thing g to think a about is thte knowow that abalalone who araret free out into o the ocean n tody are actuala

tree and that fisa genetic tree can be made up a couple of things shows where the test was done, in other words a person in new york or seattle, or wuhan or somewhere in europe that tested we have a location. west have a time so have a location and time we have the actual gino. were trying to do what were actually trying to map is the mentation through time and through space. in case of covid-19, we can look at the figures that are on the screen and you see this in time. look at the really important moment series to the rise of it and wuhan in the purple you see assault transmission through china. we start looking at the colors the tree you can see there are reds. those reds are really the transmission to north america. into the united states. there are two groups there's one at the top and one at the bottom. what's interesting what the mapping can also tell us for example is the fact that the part that's into seattle, and seattle and illinois are from china. they have the mutations that are very much like the chinese virus. the one that's up at the top, is really from europe. it ha

and genet with saint it was congress, and jefferson was saying you are wrong, it's the president. and genet threatened to appeal to the american people and that was hugely disrespectful to washington and that was very disrespectful to the new nation. so when this threat came out, when it was revealed that he said this, washington convened a cabinet meeting and they decided to request the recall of genet from france. this was a big moment because the united states have never requested the recall of the foreign minister before, and if france disagreed or refused, that would basically going to be denying the right of the united states to establish its own foreign policy and to require that foreign ministers adhere to that foreign policy. when they made that the decisi, washington really needed to ensure that evelyn agreed, otherwise i was going to be problematic when they took this huge step. they all did agree. they sent a letter to france, and eventually france did recall genet and that was sort of a tacit agreement that the united states did have the right to set its own foreign p

the risks and the impacts of dfm that you find that monsanto has not delivered on their promise that genetically engineered seeds have not advanced agricultural productivity to the degree forecasted or promised, can you say a little bit more about the finding in your work. >> absolutely, i want to say thanks to the prize committee as well, such a crazy moment when were all here on zoom and these prices go along way to help us out to finishing the project. i just want to say thank you so much. i should say when i started this, i really did not think -- it was not the gmo's that first drew me in. when i started it, i was writing the caffeine chapter on coca-cola, trying to figure out coca-cola got its caffeine from and it turned out monsanto was the supplier. weirdly they had exchanges around the world in a recycling system. i got hooked on that and i ended up going in finding their archives at washington university and i just dove into the story. and to your point, i did not know what would be the most interesting finding, being at ohio state is a tremendous agricultural institution with top lead

these are genetic trees are kinda built by very complex algorithms. mutations in the virus. but this the sort of historical metaphor because the genetic tree base that you saw before the heart is like i said, based on the mutations and kind of are accumulating in the virus. and they are very much like in the medieval historian would look at the manuscript and the same kind of manuscript as it goes through time and space and you can kinda get a sense of here's the initial manuscript and here is how it changed. and because this era happens to be in a manuscript the came from germany, and also the manuscript that is in england that he would say the cable is a place. they have the same errors of the errors came through and to some extent, that's what we are doing here with a viral map. it is a lot of data being put out. if there is some really amazing organizations like gis, aig, who are basically making this data on the sequence data available in real time. and so there are people all over the world who are able to work on this project. marie: so john, the slings are really rem

the genetic code to do the work itself, it's called an r and a vaccine. >>and it's never been done before. reporter nick paton walsh takes us into one lab that's leading that effort. everywhere there's a race for a covid vaccine. but here in london paddington. there's a race for a new type of vaccine altogether. professor robin sciatic is leading a team at imperial college using a new technique to get the human body to recognize the most dangerous parts of the virus. the hook all spike on its outside. so the body can be ready if it ever sees the real thing. >>you don't even giving the body parts are still getting the party plans for the most >>they begin human trials in mid june and hope a 6,000 human tests by october. maybe early next year, this revolutionary technique will be ready for you o i. >>here's how it works a spike from the surface of the virus. a lot of allows it to. attack can get into the cells in your body. that technique in checks, the genetic code of that spike into the body. >>let's show muscle cells make lots of the spikes. >>and your i

the yield of these genetically engineered crops will be so much more than what we had before, and i just thought that was a given we've got to accept the other costs in every thing that just did not and it being so. it ended up interviewing the top scientists of the national academy of sciences. gould and north carolina state and said in my reading this right? the yield data seems to be the same as we would get conventionally bred. he said yes that's kind of overseeing. so for me i think that was a really important thing for us to be discussing. ever thinking about the future of food, i think now historians, what i do we can weigh in on this. we have 20 years of data and there are real questions about whether this promise of productivity is holding true. >> host: so not an impressive result, but a very dramatic upset nonetheless. you write that monsanto seed enterprises are radically reshaping global ecosystems. so tell us how that has happened over those 20 years from the perspective environmental history, and do you have a net assessment as they say in washington of this radical alteri

and that is the gold standard of genetic research the theory has to do with comparing the incidence and with those radical twins. of nurture an environment and for what he was doing and before the war because at that time to have the same supply when the war started because you needed a pair of twins. and because of the cost of the war and human infrastructure made it difficult and then to get to auschwitz before him an extreme number of twin subjects. for him josef mengele, auschwitz was a cornucopia of possibility because it offered the opportunity to continue that when research without any of the safeguards that were present in germany for human beings. and to mention it would have been a crime against science if you cannot carry on these experiments. >>host: whether he was complying with the admonition what would he have said? talk about the medical profession and to be consistent with that racial hygienic work that was required and then to be substituted. no longer was the individual the racial community that you had to. and if there is a cell in the body you had to see the body an

francine: do genetics play a big role in who dies from covid-19? jason: i think that is an important question, and we are currently investigating a variety of different genetic analyses. there is important differences in viral genetics so are there differences in strains? we have heard of strains from china and europe, so it is understood -- under investigation, those viral genetics. we as humans and how does our immune system respond, we are seeing evidence of some people who may have a form of weekend immunity may have less of a storm, meaning the immune system does not respond as risk and they may become ill so they are somewhat protected and moving forward for the need from mechanical ventilation. ,hen it does not act as briskly you are not as overwhelmed as its response -- overwhelmed to its response. francine: are there disparities because of gender and race, and if there are, how can we protect the people most at risk? think about from a gender perspective, men are at greater risk of about outcome. -- a bad outcome. ande are cardiovascular r

all this is in a sense theoretical, these genetic traits are built by very complex computer all the rhythms and mathematics and transportations of the virus since it goes along but there's a historical metaphor caused the pico genetic traits you see before you are like i said based on mutations which are errors in the virus so these are very much like the way that amy evil historian would look at a manuscript and look at mistakes in the manuscript as it moves through time and space and you can get a sense of here is the initial manuscript and here's how it changed and it went to this place and because this error happens to be in a manuscript that came from germany and it's also in a manuscript that is in england, you can say they came from the same place, they've got the same errors so the error is transmitted through time and space and to a certain extent that's what we're doing with the viral mapping. there's a lot of data being put out, there's 1 million organizations on tis, aig who are basically making this data, all of this sequence data available in real time and so there are people

genÊt basically disregarded orders to stop doing this activity and in fact, with doing it in the port of philadelphia which was about six blocks from washington's house, literally right under the presidents nose and he ignored so many orders again and again for months to stop these activities and finally he was in an argument with jefferson and was basically disagreement with jefferson about who had the power to issue diplomacy policy in the united states and genÊt said it was congress. jefferson was saying you are wrong, it's the presidents. genÊt threatened to appeal to the american people and now that was hugely disrespectful to washington very disrespectful to the nation and so when this threat came out when it was revealed that he said this washington convened a cabinet meeting and decided to request the recall of genÊt from france. this was a big moment because the united states had never requested the recall of a foreign minister before. if france disagreed or refused that was basically going to be denying the right of the united states to establish its own foreign policy an

genetically humanized mice we put in the genes for the human immune system into my so that these mice have. pretty much exactly a human immune system. >>both companies plan to start human clinical trials early this summer if all goes well when might this drug be on the market so if all goes well, we expect that we will have to drug on the market by early next year of course there's no telling if this will work, but hopefully these part human animals will play a role in saving lives during the pandemic. >>in chicago right now half of the patients at a hospital there are battling coronavirus chicago senator dick durbin and other officials visited stroger hospital on friday. a place that says it plays a vital role in underserved communities. the visit comes on the heels of news that cook county may soon overtake queens, new york as the county with the most covid-19 patients, nationwide more than half of all the deaths in illinois have happened in cook county. senator durbin says the state and city of chicago would be getting funding from the cdc of 483. million dollars but made a point t

others are using genetic sequences from the virus a dozen of the teams have to serums to test on humans. to move financial markets in us firm surged after reports its vaccine had triggered an immune reaction with little or no side effects but the shares plummeted when reports emerge the vaccines effectiveness was exaggerated. researches need to run tests on thousands of subjects in any bank seen study to obtain meaningful results that takes time. experts predict a vaccination could be approved by the 2nd half of 2020. david nabarro from the world health organization vaccines can take yes but if one becomes available this year would you take it. i want to know a lot about a vaccine before i decide whether or not i'm going to take it 1st of all has its safety been demonstrated in a variety of different individuals particularly in individuals who have had kobe before are they going to get a hypersensitivity to it has its efficacy been demonstrated does it provide immunity that protects against infection against kobe and does it provide long term immunity or not those the kind of questions

the genetics revolution is intersecting with the coronavirus crisis. and with those genome in two weeks. and with that digital readout to understand the virus do you have computer models and then we can develop testing despite the diagnostic test this quickly but now with the rapid sequencing that was innovated to watch this genome mutate as it spreads around the world which is critically important my friend that professor harvard business school is also on this call is working to bring together those from around the world the genetic patterns we can use to understand to this resistance to viral infection to make smart decisions to have that kind of knowledge. maybe we can do it in one year some say two years. i was talking to a very smart scientist the other day in l.a. and said he didn't know if he one - - we could ever achieve this. and then those surveillance system all of these tools are essential and with that incredible science and this comes at a very significant chant on - - challenges. how do we optimize the benefits. as long as we are living

betty is an expert in studying the genetic variability of hiv. she's been doing that for many years. when this virus came on the scene, she immediately put her attention to it. i contacted her early in march and asked her to let me know if she saw any evidence of the virus starting to mutate and change and spread in the human population. and in about the middle of march, she contacted me and told me that there was indeed a mutation that had arose and was spreading rapidly in europe, as you mentioned, and then to other parts of the world. this mutation is in a part of the virus that the vaccines are based on. and it determines in part the sero type of the virus. it raises concerns that the mutation might make it less susceptible to the current vaccines which are all based on initial wuhan strain. that's the focus of our research right now, is to determine whether or not it's possible that this new form of the virus would not be as susceptible to the current vaccines. if that turns out to be the case, it will be important for people to quickly modi

part in the trial are receiving what's known as a gene based vaccine this type of vaccine introduces genetic material r n a from the pathogen into the body the r. and age cells the body's cells to recreate a non disease causing portion of the virus and. the presence of these antigens then sparks the immune system into creating antibodies that fight against the real covert 19 chinese firm sin of ak is meanwhile creating an in active ated vaccine using this more than 100 year old method the viruses are simply killed and introduced into the body the danger here is that the immune system can overreact so much that it kills the person. but experiments on mice and monkeys have shown that this vaccine can be a very successful and effective solution it's now being tested on humans as well. but team at oxford university is hoping to have a vaccine ready by september 2020 they've opted for 3rd method live vaccines with viral vectors this method uses a different harmless virus as a vehicle it's genetically modified so that the surface imitates the typical structure of the corona virus its so-called spi

this type of vaccine introduces genetic material r.n.a. from the pathogen into the body the r.n.a. tells the body's cells to recreate a known disease causing portion of the virus come to gyms these antigens that spark the immune system into creating antibodies the fight against the real covert 19. the biotech company cure fact based in southwestern germany is also working on a vaccine like this amazingly just one gram of the active ingredient could be used to create a 1000000 vaccine doses. we think this r.n.a. technology will provide a very good and fast solution. the 2 companies were hoping to put that vaccine on the market this year but they're more likely need a year to a year and a half. chinese is meanwhile creating an inactivated vaccine. using this more than 100 year old method the viruses a simply killed and introduced into the body. the danger here is that the immune system can overreact so much that it kills the past. but experiments on my some monkeys have shown that this vaccine can be a very successful and effective solution it's now being tested on humans as well. th

material. >> it takes three to five days to get the results of a genetic swab test. an antigen test would take minutes. >> an antigen test is going to look for proteins on the surface of the virus. instead of looking for the genetic material inside the virus. >> but there is no antigen test currently available. >> the hope is we will soon. so people can get rapid results while going to the doctor's office or clinic and know immediately whether or not they have coronavirus. >> the other test everyone is talking about is the antibody or serological test. this is a blood test that will tell you if you've already been infected with the coronavirus and recovered. >> you get a virus or infection, your immune system is going to make antibodies. these antibodies are little proteins that help you fight off the infection if your body ever sees it again. >> if you have antibodies, you may be able to fend off the coronavirus if you're exposed to it in the future. >> it takes about a week or two after an infection for your body to build up antibodies. what we don't know is how lo

that the yield of these genetically engineered crops will be so much more than what we had before and i took that as a given. we've got to accept all these costs herbicide cost and everything else but that didn't end up being so. it ended up interviewing the top scientists for the national academy of sciences study fred gould at north carolina state and asked him, am i reading this right? the yield data seems to be the same as when we look at conventional thread. it's kind of what we are seeing. so for me i think it's really important thing for us to be discussing. if we are thinking about the future of foods i think now historians what i do we can weigh in on this we now have 20+ years of data and i think there are real questions about whether the promise of productivity is really holding true. >> so not an impressive result but a very dramatic effect nonetheless you write that monsanto is kind of seed enterprises are radically reshaping global ecosystems. tell us how that has happened over those 20 years from the perspective environmental history and do you have a net assessment as

it is not a genetic thing. it is nothrase is your genetic code that determines your outcome, it is your zip code. it is a call to action for all our communities. we have to have undiagnosed hypertension diagnosed so that when this happens, the same people that continuously get hit hardest are once again disproportionately impacted. physician.re an er you are a podcast host? dr. faust: yeah, the past six or seven years i had a podcast i do with my colleagues and another er doctor. ands for doctors and nurses other professionals. we try to bridge the old and the new. in the past months we went to all covid all the time. i started a blog about front-line workers and research experts. our research director is a physician and lawyer. our research editor is a johns hopkins resident physician, an unbelievably bright young doctor. we try to package the latest news from the perspective of a frontline dr. but make it readable for the public. we thought we would feel some -- fill some gaps. host: you are on with dr. jerem

seen studies showing influence of genetics on the severity of infectious disease. >> yeah. we actually -- there's a couple that are good examples noravirus is hearing about that sometimes, cruise ship virus, the 20% of the population resist thatn't to that. hiv is another one where there's a well-known mutation of ccr-5 and people with that mutation are resistant to hiv so we published a paper. we started doing research on infectious diseases and published a paper a couple of years ago looking at the customers and a number of diseases like measles and gives us optimism of a good chance of finding something that, you know, will show why some people have a more severe case and why some people are more susceptible to others. >> you also noted in the post of expanding the folks in the hospital that it is a sensitive situation. many people are still recovering r. you partnering with academic medical centers, hospitals how will you find the folks and get the kits to them >> a lot of what we're hoping because you're right a lot of people are going to be in the hospital so we're ho

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