Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted

Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by Gibbon1 on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:07PM (#27623116)

Seems like scientists with the training an experience to know what they are talking about say SARS-Covid2 doesn't look like the result of gain of function research.

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by swebs on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:54PM (#27624328)

Got a link? I'm interested to see how its even possible to distinguish that.

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by Gibbon1 on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:10AM (#27627648)

I think one. I can't vouch for any of the detail. (Just like almost everyone else)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

"Furthermore, if genetic manipulation had been performed, one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used19. However, the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone"

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by dekhn on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:53PM (#27635455)

When a scientist says 'irrefutably' that just means you should check their work even more carefully.

One of the authors of this paper is mentioned in the article, he's walked back his stance a bit.

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