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David R. Liu

davidrliu

A key piece of the #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 origin puzzle emerges: where did the virus's unusual spike protein RBD—the receptor-binding domain that engages human ACE2 protein and allows the virus to

Mr. T- Cell

realCOVID19_

Daily reminder:— Coronavirus main host is a bat— Bats are not found in Wuhan/Hubei region— Bats would have been hibernating around time of the outbreak— COVID19 is extremely susceptible to

Kevin McKernan 🙂

Kevin_McKernan

A few people have asked me if the current SARs-CoV-2 primers hit SARs 2003?This is a tutorial on how to BLAST these yourself to address such questions. There are many

Claire Berlinski.

ClaireBerlinski

I did not finish this, and it seems it was a bit too technical to interest anyone, but man, it is in the technical parts that the interest lies, and

Kristian G. Andersen

K_G_Andersen

A few comms on the (lack of) scientific merits of the "Yan Report". It is non-scientific and false - cherry picking data and ignoring data disproving their hypotheses.It's using technical

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

Our preprint is up on bioRxiv! We discuss key findings about the adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 for humans, scenarios for cross species transmission (pangolins, Wuhan Huanan market), and measures to prevent

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

The ripple effect of the Yan report that as I said before has done more to discredit the lab origins hypothesis than all of the peer-reviewed natural origins papers combined.

Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

BillyBostickson

HIV "Inserts" ThreadThis Thread will examine in tedious detail:1. HIV based Virus Like particles (VLPs) & Lentiviruses used mainly for vaccine development2. Important papers & analyses published on HIV "inserts"3

The Seeker

TheSeeker268

It’s been more than 2 years since the world learned of the novel coronavirus outbreak, but the most important questions about its origin are still unanswered. So here is a

Alina Chan

Ayjchan

My thoughts about the Yan whistleblower report on SARS2 origins have been percolating over the past few very busy days. I'm ready to share them in this thread: (1) why+how

Mark Hanson

HansonM90

0. A huge disservice to the genuine Q of Sars2 = lab manip. vs wild-borne. It ignores a mountain of evidence generated over the last year supporting a natural origin.

Jehad Samhouri

JSamhouri

الرد ع الهبدة #فيروس_كورونا #العالمة_الصينية -الورقة المنشورة للعالمة الصينية Li-Meng Yan-بداية رؤيتي للورقة " غير " العلمية لهذه الع

Dr Russell McGregor

KillAuDeepState

1) THREAD - origin of the virusPerhaps the following article is the reason why General Mark A. Milley has a dilemma and says the “weight of evidence” with regard to

ice9

__ice9

For reference, here is the recent report alleging a potentially artificial origin for SARS-CoV-2, from virologist Li-Meng Yan.https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X1_G1mhKg2zhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_YanYan recently fled Hong Kong

Matt Ridley

mattwridley

Thread on the origin on the virus.Many media outlets including the @thesundaytimes are speculating about whether the virus leaked from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan (WIV). Please note this

internetperson

interne41914499

*10,000 view celebratory thread*The May-June 2020 iterations of this article were the first to link coronaviruses from the Mojiang mineshaft to documented activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)