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> the lab has published multiple research papers about making coronaviruses more infectious in humans. that's frightening. Do you have any more information ab

• burfog 7y ago
  Here is China making a coronavirus like the one causing the pandemic, even acting on the ACE2 receptor and testing it in human cells, publishing it in early 2008: https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899 https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899 Here they are again, years later, still playing with extremely hazardous coronaviruses that act on the ACE2 receptor in humans: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711 This one gene-edits the host cells to have both human and bat traits, making it easier to breed bat viruses into becoming human viruses: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-010-0729-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-010-0729-6
  • abandonliberty 6y ago
    >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-010-0729-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-010-0729-6 It's not correct to call insertion of a plasmid to be gene editing of a host cell, though this could be arguably pedantic. I'm curious how you concluded that what they did made it easier to breed bat viruses into becoming human viruses?