New Coronavirus developed in
laboratory? The scientists responded
Some circles with regard to the Novel Corona virus
suspect it has been manufactured in a laboratory or has been made by humans.
But now scientists have rejected it in a research. After reviewing the genome sequencing data of
the new Corona virus and related viruses, scientists said there was no evidence
that the virus was made by a laboratory or human. Scientists involved in the
research, published in the Journal Nature Medicine, say that after comparing
the available genome sequences of several types of corona viruses we can
clearly say that this or the corona virus is the result of natural processes. This
research, made to determine the origin, included scientists from Tulane
University, Columbia University, Edinburgh University, the Scripps Research
Institute of America and Sydney University of Australia.
Coronaviruses belongs to a family of germs which are responsible for causing a variety
of diseases. First Corona virus which appeared in 2003 was called SARS. It started
the
outbreak in China. The second major outbreak of this generation's virus was
the spread of the MERS virus in Saudi Arabia in 2012. On December 31 last year,
Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organization to the outbreak of
the Novel Corona virus, which was named Surz Cove 2 on February 20th, 2020
while the disease was named Cove19. So far, the virus has infected more than
two million people worldwide and killed 8,000. With the outbreak of the CoronaVirus,
Chinese scientists developed the genome of the virus and shared data from
around the world. In this new study, scientists in collaboration with several
research institutes, sought to find out the basis and evolution of this
sequential data focusing on several prominent features of the virus. Scientists
analyzed various components, including virus spike proteins, and discovered
that RBD portions in spike proteins effectively target receptor S2 which is
located outside human cells. Spike proteins interact so effectively with human
cells that scientists say that this may be a natural result of no genetic
modification by humans. Evidence for this virus‘s being natural is its overall
molecular structure. If anyone had genetically
altered the corona virus it would have built the spinal cord- the source of the
virus's infection. But the structure of the spine in viruses is similar to the
viruses found in bats and pangolin.
Researchers argue that these 2 features of the virus, namely, the RBD portions of Isic
protein and its spinal cord reject the idea of any editing in the laboratory.
He said the virus is the result of natural evolution and speculation that
humans have made it should now end.
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