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A comment on The Mysterious Case of the Covid-19 Lab-Leak Theory.

Re:The Mysterious Case of the Covid-19 Lab-Leak Theory by pengaru on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:35PM (#29022092)
> The DARPA proposal stated that scientists would introduce furin cleavage sites into lab-created versions of SARS-related coronaviruses, recovered from bats in Yunnan.

> SARS-CoV-2 is the only virus known to possess a furin cleavage site in its section of the coronavirus family tree. “We now know that there are full-length bat CoVs similar to SARS-CoV-2 that bind well to human ACE2,” Bloom said, referring to the Laos viruses, “but only lack the furin cleavage site.”

Yikes.

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Re:The Mysterious Case of the Covid-19 Lab-Leak Theory by noiseman on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:29AM (#29023712)
I thought furin cleavage sites naturally occurred in coronaviruses? See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...
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