Vielleicht hast du schon vom 'International weekly Journal of Science, Nature' gehört? Nicht wenige Wissenschaftler arbeiten daran ihre Papers im Nature veröffentlicht zu sehen. Frag mal einen, den du kennst. Eine Veröffenlichung im Journal ist quasi der 'wissenschaftliche Ritterschlag'.

Nun, was veröffentlicht Nature denn so:
Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens

The Wuhan lab cost 300 million yuan (US$44 million), and to allay safety concerns it was built far above the flood plain and with the capacity to withstand a magnitude-7 earthquake, although the area has no history of strong earthquakes. It will focus on the control of emerging diseases, store purified viruses and act as a World Health Organization ‘reference laboratory’ linked to similar labs around the world.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences approved the construction of a BSL-4 laboratory in 2003, and the epidemic of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) around the same time lent the project momentum.

Future plans include studying the pathogen that causes SARS, which also doesn’t require a BSL-4 lab, before moving on to Ebola and the West African Lassa virus, which do. Some one million Chinese people work in Africa; the country needs to be ready for any eventuality, says Yuan. “Viruses don’t know borders.”

In Peking ist SARS aus dem lokalen Labor mehrfach 'ausgebrochen':

But worries surround the Chinese lab, too. The SARS virus has escaped from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times, notes Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Tim Trevan, founder of CHROME Biosafety and Biosecurity Consulting in Damascus, Maryland, says that an open culture is important to keeping BSL-4 labs safe, and he questions how easy this will be in China, where society emphasizes hierarchy.

Ein BSL-4-Labor hat 'von Natur aus doppelte Verwendung', doppelt im Sinne von zivil/militärisch:

“These facilities are inherently dual use,” he says.

Gao travelled to Sierra Leone during the recent Ebola outbreak, allowing his team to report the speed with which the virus mutated into new strains1. The Wuhan lab will give his group a chance to study how such viruses cause disease, and to develop treatments based on antibodies and small molecules, he says.

Bestimmt alles Bullshit, was Nature da so veröffentlicht.

Dr. Peng Zhou arbeitet rein zufällig im Wuhan BSL-4 Labor, dem Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS und ist 'Leader of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunization Group'.

Hier schreibt auf offiziellen Kanälen über sein Arbeitsgebiet und was er so macht. Hat mit Viren, Fledermäusen, SARS, etc. zu tun...

Hier sucht Dr. Zhou neue PHDs (Doktoren) für seine Arbeitsgruppe.

Ein paar Veröffentlichungen von Dr. Zhou und seiner Arbeitsgruppe:

• Immunogenicity of the spike glycoprotein of Bat SARS-like coronavirus
  
• Bat severe acute respiratory syndrome-like coronavirus ORF3b homologues display different interferon antagonist activities
  
• Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin
  
• Dampened STING-Dependent Interferon Activation in Bats
  
• IFNAR2-dependent gene expression profile induced by IFN-α in Pteropus alecto bat cells and impact of IFNAR2 knockout on virus infection

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