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2023-03-27 19:45:25 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: AC1B673B8ECEC4A47B47D6A83231E90C29C050A17F3727E589D5829DD5993389
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Original Note:
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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