Scientists publish claim to have discovered HIV genes in coronavirus RNA(twitter.com)

Scientists publish claim to have discovered HIV genes in coronavirus RNA

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1223310835562557442

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RNase6 anni fa

It is an RNA virus. Please update title to stop spreading fake nucleic acid news.

aazaa6 anni fa

> 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....

mads6 anni fa

Well, Wuhan does have a BSL4 lab, so....

rasz6 anni fa

so did Raccoon City, even the lab logos match :)

drannex6 anni fa

This is widely inaccurate. Please remove the post or update te title.

dang6 anni fa

Updated. There is discussion of this paper, such as it is, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205705 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204866.

exabrial6 anni fa

Please fix the title before we spread fake news.