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You could bio-engineer a virus without gain of function, I presume. My point was that a lab leak does not also mean bio-engineering.
by JoBrad 4y ago
You could bio-engineer a virus without gain of function, I presume. My point was that a lab leak does not also mean bio-engineering.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoI heard that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had inserted furin cleavage sites into random types of viruses in the past and that SARS-CoV-2 is unique among coronaviruses for having a furin cleavage site, but this[0] says otherwise: ``` Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2. ``` 0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33340798/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33340798/