Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV

Posted by ronri19 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:47AM
from the ncbi.nlm.nih.gov dept.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936131/

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Re:Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV by seltzered_ on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:08AM (#28501836)

This isn't my focus, but my understanding is that there's a difference between researching SARS-CoV viruses and SARS-CoV-2 viruses.

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Re:Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV by pfortuny on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:15AM (#28501909)

The key is that this research (which includes creating mutations of sars-cov viruses) was indeed funded by the NIH.

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Re:Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV by belter on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:20AM (#28501959)

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500246

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Re:Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV by bigcorp-slave on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:21AM (#28501980)

Editorialized and misleading title. More anti-vax propaganda. They’re really hiding it what with the article being posted on nih.gov and all. HN should be better than this.

Let me summarize the study: “We deleted a protein from a different virus and made it less dangerous, thus showing that the protein is important.”

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