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Re:More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins by JPKab on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:33PM (#27190022)
Define "engineered".

If it was bred in a lab via humanized mice engineered with human ACE 2 receptors, would you consider that? What about forms of "no seeum" splicing?

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Re:More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins by adolph on Monday May 17, 2021 @09:20PM (#27190319)
Also, Dr. Shi was trained by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina in building “chimera” viruses — taking, for example, the spike protein from a new virus and splicing it to the backbone of a known one like SARS. He invented “no-see-um” techniques that left no trace of the splice.

From

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop...

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