From what I've read, their work on novel bat coronaviruses mainly consisted of sequencing samples, since culturing the viruses in the lab is notoriously hard. H

From what I've read, their work on novel bat coronaviruses mainly consisted of sequencing samples, since culturing the viruses in the lab is notoriously hard. How are you going to infect yourself with a tiny, denatured sample used for sequencing? It would probably be quite a challenge to do this intentionally.