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Scientists publish claim to have discovered HIV genes in coronavirus RNA
- exabrial 7y agoPlease fix the title before we spread fake news.
- RNase 7y agoIt is an RNA virus. Please update title to stop spreading fake nucleic acid news.
- mads 7y agoWell, Wuhan does have a BSL4 lab, so....
- rasz 7y agoso did Raccoon City, even the lab logos match :)
- aazaa 7y ago> 22. The authors dunked this final conclusion: “This uncanny similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous”. Wow, they sure just went straight there! What a bold paper... I don’t know what to say ️ From this paper: https://biorxiv-cache.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2020.01.30.927871.full.pdf https://biorxiv-cache.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2020.01.30....
- drannex 7y agoThis is widely inaccurate. Please remove the post or update te title.
- dang 7y agoUpdated. There is discussion of this paper, such as it is, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205705 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204866.