New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by corporateslave5 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:45PM (#22147825)

Yes. There’s a biology from Harvard who has noticed this. I think people are catching on it’s from the lab. I’ve seen PhD level biologists on twitter making the same observations

Here it is:

Wuhan virus is essentially SARs http://virological.org/t/missed-orfs-in-ncov/345 "Anyone notice two ‘accessory’ ORFs not annotated in nCoV? Orf13 (aka 9b) (28284:28577) and Orf14 (28734:28955) . One is ~ 70% ID and other ~ 90% to syntenous ORFs in BAT SARS 2017 ?"

This was a lab break.

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by im3w1l on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:46PM (#22148523)

For non-biologists among us ORF = open reading frame. It has roughly the same meaning as a gene.

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by Accujack on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:44PM (#22161786)

>This was a lab break.

Or, the lab happened to be studying a similar virus that existed in local bats?

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by hisomehelppls on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:57PM (#22147904)

Thank you, exactly the informed reply I was hoping for. Now let's hope the rest of HN sees this buried half-way down the thread.

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