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2023-03-27 20:22:20 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 3EB9B454EC57DD0E2043443A95D10BE185C4D3DDA25E66E05E2A6908FFD2552A
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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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