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2023-03-28 11:40:14 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 9BDF8D53A8062F4DE9F3A9EB017EAB035F2C85D3392A0081DB65649360BE562A
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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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