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by photochemsyn 1334 days ago
Looks interesting:

> "The evidence we find is independent of other genomic evidence suggestive of a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, such as the furin cleavage site (FCS) found in SARS-CoV-2 yet missing from all other known sarbecoviruses. However, the BsaI sites in SARS-COV-2 flank the S1 gene and S1/S2 junction, and a similar design has been used before for substitutions in this region. The restriction map alone also does not indicate the lab of origin."