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Re:[deleted] by collateral0 on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:51PM (#22204948)
The implications are rather ominous. It's difficult not to read "it's an engineered virus" into sentences like "similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous" and "our findings suggest unconventional evolution of 2019-nCoV" - quoted directly from their conclusory paragraph.
Re:[deleted] by corporate_shi11 on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:54PM (#22207994)
Why was this deleted?
Re:[deleted] by credit_guy on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:05PM (#22208056)
Maybe it’s considered to be a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204866
Re:[deleted] by spirit23 on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:49PM (#22208745)
It's an unreviewed pre-print paper so I tried to delete it but kinda late