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Cannabis Genome Project,2011. SOLiD sequencer. R&D lead Human Genome Project at MIT/WIBR. Founder- Medicinal Genomics.

Jun 24, 7 tweets

While the Pharma funded fact checkers swear the SV40 isn’t there…
BioNTech quietly files with the EMA admitting it’s in fact there.

They might clean it up.
Might not.

Notice how they claim the SV40 elements are non-utilized.

That’s bullshit.
They are the promoter for the kanamycin resistance

Looks like this mistake contaminated 4 products.

Ooops

They once again claim the sequence elements are non functional, non oncogenic and no risk for insertional mutagenesis.

We lied to you…
But pinky swear, we aren’t doing it now.
Don’t look at Senigl et al.

SV40 promoters bind to p53.
Drayman et al

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27462916/

Strayer et al explains why SV40 plasmids integrate.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12161189/

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