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Given that this line is from a cell culture, wouldn’t the simpler explanation be that the virus has this sequence because it was replicated in that specific Moderna culture lineage?

This would be a particularly useful discovery, because it would dramatically limit the candidates for who did the gain of function research to organizations licensed this Moderna lineage.

> dismissing the RaTG13 results claiming that they were just put into the database after people started questioning

To be fair, that sequence came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology