gain of function research
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Where did COVID actually come from?: Biosecurity reformers
The oversight gap The DEFUSE proposal — submitted to DARPA in 2018, not funded — described inserting furin cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. Whether the experiment was conducted anyway is the single most important unanswered question in biosecurity.... Where did COVID actually come from?: Lab leak
The published papers The WIV published a paper in 2015 describing the construction of a chimeric coronavirus — bat spike protein grafted onto a SARS backbone, capable of infecting human airway cells. Peer-reviewed. Available to anyone with a library card. We read it.... Where did COVID actually come from?: Biosecurity reformers
The oversight gap The DEFUSE proposal — submitted to DARPA in 2018, not funded — described inserting furin cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. Whether the experiment was conducted anyway is the single most important unanswered question in biosecurity....