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>"The whole RNA sequence is available online and so far no expert to my knowledge has claimed it looks synthetic." This is no longer true. See: 'Uncanny simil
by corporate_shi11 7y ago
>"The whole RNA sequence is available online and so far no expert to my knowledge has claimed it looks synthetic."
This is no longer true. See:
'Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag'
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1
These are findings from IIT researchers who have found "uncanny" similarities between nCov and HIV which could increase virality.
- longtom 7y agoThis finding has been debunked in the meanwhile though. The suspicious inserts are fairly short and NOT unique to HIV. See these threads: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1223337991168380928 https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1223337991168380928 https://twitter.com/bblarsen1/status/1223343688400527360 https://twitter.com/bblarsen1/status/1223343688400527360 Seems the entire publish and peer-review cycle occurs on the scale of hours or days now, lol.