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Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)

7 pointsby DidISayTooMuchover 4 years ago

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DidISayTooMuchover 4 years ago
From the article:<p>&quot;An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks....&quot;<p>&quot;..Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says...&quot;