Health
Might SARS‐CoV‐2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage through an Animal Host or Cell Culture? – Wiley
This article from a father–son team explores whether the history and methodology of viral serial passage gain‐of‐function research provides a parsimonious explanation for SARS‐CoV‐2, contrasting it w…
1 Introduction
To date, the origins of SARSCoV2 remain in doubt, and its behavior enigmatic: It has been reported that the virus acts like no microbe humanity has ever seen.[1] Although based on sequence analysis many prominent virologists and other eminent scientists have concluded that the novel coronavirus causing the current pandemic was not designed or manipulated in a laboratory and was the result of a natural zoonotic jump,[2] this assertion fails to fully account for all possible origin…
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