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>Because since "gaining" has to happen before "uncovering", either of the alternative will imply "gain of function" If it happened naturally in one of the viru
by belltaco 5y ago
>Because since "gaining" has to happen before "uncovering", either of the alternative will imply "gain of function"
If it happened naturally in one of the viruses collected by the lab, it wasn't because of gain of function research.
- spfzero 5y agoWhat if it happened "naturally", as a result of workers infecting thousands of mice and killing the ones that stayed healthy, then reinfecting new mice from the remainder, over and over for many generations? Or you did the same except used tissue samples instead of live mice? Yes, you merely allowed evolution to "uncover" it, but if you paid for this work you certainly helped it along.
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- forcry 5y ago> it wasn't because of gain of function research. May be. But they were doing GoF (even going by your statement above), which was the question being asked.