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more on SARS virus possibly manmade by the Chinese
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 21:34:43 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Michele Fuortes <mfuortes () med cornell edu> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 19:54:39 -0400 (EDT) To: dave () farber net Cc: bporter () theideasgroup com Subject: Re: [IP] SARS virus possibly manmade by the Chinese Dave, It seems to me (IMHO) this is quite a (science) fiction piece
³This virus was very possibly an escaped lab freak. I would guess RSV capsid and toxin genes inserted in coronovirus,
both the genome of RSV and SARS Coronavirus are available at NCBI, a quick analysis of the "capsid" shows a 12% aminoacid identity, absolutely not-significant, so SARS capsid is NOT RSV capsid. There is no "RSV toxin" gene. The closest thing to a "toxin" RSV has is the fusion glycoprotein (which causes the syncitium that gives the name to RSV=respiratory syncytial virus) and again there is nothing even close to it in the SARS Coronavirus genome.
I pulled up multiple other articles as well showing a significant number of publications from labs using various mutations of coronovirus,
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See below for snippets of abstracts.
maybe, but the two articles mentioned do NOT have anything to do with coronaviruses. Michele Fuortes Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Assistant Professor of Surgery Cornell University Weill Medical College New Yor, NY ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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