Thread by @gumby4christ

In 2016, Harvard hosted a secretive meeting to organize a controversial project: synthesizing an entire human genome in the lab. A month later, the project was publicly announced, and who was doing the key research? Lab-origin superstar Alina Chan. statnews.com/2016/06/02/syn…

This project received widespread criticism, both for the secrecy of the meeting and the lack of attention to ethics. It was criticized in WaPo and the NY Times. Biologist Drew Endy refused to participate. Genetic Literacy Project has a good roundup 👇 geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/05/16/har…

The meeting was organized by Harvard biologist George Church, who helped developed genome sequencing and co-created the gene editing technique CRISPR. For years, he also enjoyed numerous meetings and phone calls with eugenics aficionado Jeffrey Epstein. statnews.com/2019/08/05/cit…

Epstein, of course, is notorious for his interests in transhumanism, AI, and "improving the human population through...genetic engineering." He wanted to make heritable changes to human embryos and to seed the human race with his own DNA. web.archive.org/web/2019073119…

Church is himself an arch-transhumanist with a whole list of genes he wants to edit. Below, a writer for the Epstein-backed Humanity+ describes a talk by Church at a DARPA meeting in which he lauds eugenics (improving intelligence via genetic selection). hplusmagazine.com/2015/02/15/bio…

Not sure if I said this explicitly above, but it's worth underlining that Alina Chan presented at the Church-organized Harvard meeting on synthetic human genomes, presenting her work on building artificial human chromosomes. statnews.com/2016/06/02/syn…

One company that also made a presentation at the Harvard meeting was Twist Bioscience. Twist, interestingly, is one of the few cos. that provides made-to-order DNA which is essential for viral cloning, like that done by Ralph Baric's lab. technologyreview.com/2020/02/15/844…

I say "interestingly" because one of the (IMO) disturbing features of Chan's Covid-origin research has been her willingness to cozy up to Ralph Baric, even going so far as to co-author a letter with him this month. science.sciencemag.org/content/372/65…

Baric, as anyone who's been following the origin saga should understand, is one of the prime suspects in any lab-origin hypothesis. He's also a major practitioner of dangerous gain-of-function work. I've seen nothing but praise & defense of Baric from Chan twitter.com/search?q=from%…

By Chan's own account, she was interested in human artificial chromosomes for "genome writing" and "mammalian cell engineering" and wanted to create synthetic DNA and "deliver them into human cells."

Alina Chan developed a method for fusing yeast to human cells to create "Frankenstein cells." With this technique, she successfully inserted ebola into human cells in order to make human cells produce the infectious virus(!).

Here's a semi-transcript of Chan's talk. Her research was conducted for GP-write, George Church's synthetic genome project (originally called "Human Genome Project-write" until they apparently realized the name was too creepy). diyhpl.us/wiki/transcrip…

Direct connection between Twist Bioscience, which participated in the Church-organized synthetic genome project meeting, to Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein. h/t @SpaceDaaddyy

Alina Chan noting that the Pentagon funds her research into human artificial chromosomes (HACs) 👇

Some background on DARPA's interest in HACs (or at least what they state publicly) 👇

Chan's employer, the Broad Institute, has received $32 million from DARPA to ramp up its synthetic biology and DNA engineering efforts. broadinstitute.org/news/darpa-awa…

The Broad Institute was co-founded by Eric Lander, who met with Epstein at least once. Lander denies taking $ from Epstein, yet Epstein's site bragged about funding Lander's work. Lander was just confirmed as Biden's cabinet-level science adviser. unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/report…