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主题:阴谋论:新型冠状病毒疫情是对中国的生物武器攻击吗? -- 夕曦

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家园 生物武器攻击或许有可能,美国北卡的一个实验室

2015年11月发表了一个人造的嵌合体冠状病毒,这个研究证明了一个假设冠状病毒突变可以不经过中间动物宿主,直接在人体上产生疾病。美国的这个研究真是无底线,使生物武器攻击成为可能

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Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate

Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine.

The results demonstrate the ability of the SHC014 surface protein to bind and infect human cells, validating concerns that this virus—or other coronaviruses found in bat species—may be capable of making the leap to people without first evolving in an intermediate host, Nature reported. They also reignite a debate about whether that information justifies the risk of such work, known as gain-of-function research. “If the [new] virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, told Nature.

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