Scientists Just Created a More Virulent and Lethal Version of SARS-CoV-2 — It Escapes Antibodies and Jumps Species

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“Lets hope this technology is used for good, if not, it could produce endless variations of more lethal viruses.” Admin

 

If SARS-CoV-2 has frazzled your nerves, I have bad news for you. Scientists are already cooking up more virulent and lethal versions.

 

In a January 22, 2021, Twitter post, biotech entrepreneur Yuri Deigin highlighted a study posted on the preprint server bioRxiv at the end of December 2020, saying:1

 

Scientists Just Created A More Virulent And Lethal Version Of Sars Cov 2 — It Escapes Antibodies And Jumps Species

French lab scientists in hazmat gear / Francois Mori / AP Photo / Source: witf

“Ok, the prize for the craziest and most dangerous gain-of-function research goes out to Italian virologists who took SARS[-CoV-]2 and passaged it in vitro in the presence of neutralizing antibodies.2 It quickly obliged and mutated to escape them. Yay for a novel, more dangerous SARS3!”

 

“Passaging” refers to a genetic engineering technique where a virus is grown in a series of different animal tissue cultures. With each “pass,” the virus will mutate slightly, gaining different functions.

 

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