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  "textContent": "Remember Ralph Baric? Baric is the University of North Carolina virologist who has spent the last 30 years working with coronaviruses. He’s especially good at making “chimeric” coronaviruses. That’s a fancy way of saying he jams pieces of different natural viruses together, often to see if the new artificial one will be good at infecting […]",
  "title": "The greatest trick Ralph Baric ever played was convincing the world he didn’t exist"
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