5 ms·
From the OP, it appears that scientists knew exactly where to insert a furin cleavage site: >“Since 1992 the virology community has known that the one sure way
by Pepe1vo 5y ago
From the OP, it appears that scientists knew exactly where to insert a furin cleavage site:
>“Since 1992 the virology community has known that the one sure way to make a virus deadlier is to give it a furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction in the laboratory,” writes Steven Quay, a biotech entrepreneur interested in the origins of SARS2.
- ximeng 5y agoThe problem is knowing how to put in the furin cleavage site, and generally if it's done in the lab it's done by copying a particular sequence from an existing virus as scientists can't predict how to do it themselves (without copying) with current state of knowledge.
- matzab 5y agoThat's such a mischaracterisation, I don't even know where to start. That Quay-guy obviously searched for "furin" on pubmed, found some papers (that don't even say that - and most definitely not for any coronaviruses) and thought it fit his thesis. If only viruses and infections were that simple!
- pas 5y agoCould you still start somewhere and explain it a bit please? Thank you very much!
- nyolfen 5y agohe left out the most damning part: > “At least 11 gain-of-function experiments, adding a furin site to make a virus more infective, are published in the open literature, including [by] Dr. Zhengli Shi, head of coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”