Interesantísimo lo que acaba de decir el chico del MERS.
Manipular un bichito deja huellas y no se han encontrado en el SARS-COV-2.
Dianas de inserción creo que le ha llamado.
Engineered bat bichito stirs debate over risky research
An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat cobi19 — one related to the bichito that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.
In an article published in
Nature Medicine1 on 9 November, scientists investigated a bichito called SHC014, which is found in horseshoe bats in China. The researchers created a chimaeric bichito, made up of a surface protein of SHC014 and the backbone of a SARS bichito that had been adapted to grow in mice and to mimic human disease. The chimaera infected human airway cells — proving that the surface protein of SHC014 has the necessary structure to bind to a key receptor on the cells and to infect them. It also caused disease in mice, but did not kill them.
Although almost all coronaviruses isolated from bats have not been able to bind to the key human receptor, SHC014 is not the first that can do so. In 2013, researchers reported this ability for the first time in a different cobi19 isolated from the same bat population
12 November 2015
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Engineered bat bichito stirs debate over risky research