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2023-03-27 19:50:42 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0BD4990BF3255997269B09B79D8F410C961E941E8728A047A9F5A3FF779F297B
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The furin cleavage site can evolve by natural mechanisms. The research in question would not have led to a virus like SARS-CoV-2 because it's proposing working on viruses with known backbones. SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site was not engineered https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-020-04750-z
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