Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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Paper: NIH Funded Wuhan to Study Mutating SARS-CoV

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

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

(related link: https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about... )

pfortuny5 lat temu

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

belter5 lat temu

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

bigcorp-slave5 lat temu

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.”