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Scientists from Wuhan and the US were planning to create new coronaviruses that did not exist in nature, it has emerged. Proposals show they planned to combine the genetic codes of other viruses
Leaked documents of a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) reveal that the international team of scientists planned to mix genetic data of closely related strains and grow completely new viruses
A genetics expert working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that if Sars-CoV-2 had been produced in this way, it would explain why a close match has never been found in nature. So far the closest naturally occurring virus to Sars-CoV-2 is a strain called Banal-52, which was reported from Laos last month
The Darpa proposals show the team had planned to take sequences from naturall ... 更多