# Insights into COVID-19’s Origins, Recursion Reverses Course, and AACR Stands Up for Cancer Research

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Podcast: [Touching Base](https://stenobird.com/podcast/touching-base-6714887)
Published: 2025-05-09T16:27:51+00:00
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## Resource

The exact origins of SARS-CoV-2 are still something of a mystery, but new research may bring scientists one step closer to an explanation for how the virus reached Wuhan. Also in the episode, we dive into GEN’s coverage of the annual AACR meeting including how the community is navigating massive research budget cuts. Then we discuss a potential colorectal cancer therapy using CRISPR-edited tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and a method for delivering protein therapies and gene editors using engineered vesicles. Lastly, in business news, Recursion rethinks its pipeline, the FDA gives Abeona’s gene therapy a chance, and Bristol Myers Squibb execs open up on artificial intelligence. Join GEN editors Corinna Singleman, PhD, Alex Philippidis, Julianna LeMieux, PhD, and Uduak Thomas for a discussion of the latest biotech and biopharma news.  Listed below are links to the GEN stories referenced in this episode of Touching Base: AACR 2025: A Video Update from Chicago By Julianna LeMieux, PhD and Damian Doherty, GEN, April 29, 2025 Hope and Headwinds at AACR in Chicago By Damian Doherty, GEN, April 29, 2025 Senator Tammy Baldwin Supports Science in AACR Speech By Julianna LeMieux, PhD, GEN, April 29, 2025 CRISPR-Edited TILs Fight Advanced Colorectal Cancer in Patients By GEN, May 4, 2025 Engineered Extracellular Vesicles Could Deliver Gene Editors, Therapeutic Proteins to Cells By GEN, April 30, 2025 SARS-CoV-2 Likely Spread Through Wildlife Trade, Not Bat Migration By GEN, May 7, 2025 Chatting with Author David Quammen about SARS-CoV-2 Will Leave You “Breathless” Originally aired: November 16, 2022 Recursion Halts Four Pipeline Programs, Sharpening Cancer, Rare Disease Focus By Alex Philippidis, GEN Edge, May 5, 2025 StockWatch: Second Time’s the Charm for Abeona’s Gene Ther…

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