Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by corporate_shi11 on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:00PM (#22208030)

>"The whole RNA sequence is available online and so far no expert to my knowledge has claimed it looks synthetic."

This is no longer true. See:

'Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag'

These are findings from IIT researchers who have found "uncanny" similarities between nCov and HIV which could increase virality.

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Re:Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spr... by longtom on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:22PM (#22208140)

This finding has been debunked in the meanwhile though. The suspicious inserts are fairly short and NOT unique to HIV.

See these threads:

Seems the entire publish and peer-review cycle occurs on the scale of hours or days now, lol.

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