RT @Justin_Ling: Literally everyone agrees about zoonotic origin. It's a question of whether it was zoonotic spillover. And there is a pi…
RT @Justin_Ling: Literally everyone agrees about zoonotic origin. It's a question of whether it was zoonotic spillover. And there is a pi…
Literally everyone agrees about zoonotic origin. It's a question of whether it was zoonotic spillover. And there is a pile of peer-reviewed papers providing evidence for that natural spill-over. https://t.co/yVR351JHcF https://t.co/0gxI9k5mt0 https://t
@emmecola @tehknein massive under sampling ... https://t.co/LmRhPLasHo
@franciscodeasis @babarlelephant @emmecola Francisco que lo sabe todo ... primero ano de virologia aplicada ? deje eso, y vuelva a la universidad primero 🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/LmRhPLasHo https://t.co/8xt5FM3NX9
@stuartjdneil @Rossana38510044 @Stephengm99 Hey hey, easy Stuart.. What about this paper? "SARS-2 itself is not a recombinant of any sarbecoviruses detected to date, and its RBM, important for specificity to human ACE2 receptors, appears to be an ancestral
RT @robertson_lab: @babarlelephant @emmecola @Ayjchan Definitely there's strong geographical clustering in the data as this figure shows bu…
@babarlelephant @emmecola @Ayjchan Definitely there's strong geographical clustering in the data as this figure shows but there's also MASSIVE under-sampling with large regions of China with no viruses reported (figure from https://t.co/wM6nXgUeTl): https:
@zekeriya0816 @EmreEmirli @salutbm @SalihTabak0877 @coskunomer23 @Amipgiardia İzole edilmemiş? Bütün genomu çıkarıldı yahu bu ne bilimsizliktir! https://t.co/kqKXfh7JYV bu mesela gen kökenleri https://t.co/diaCRClSun nature dergisi burada browser yapmış ge
RT @michaelzlin: 3. The wild bat-resident precursor to SARSCoV2 has not yet been found but it is not RaTG13 itself, whose 96% similarity st…
RT @michaelzlin: 3. The wild bat-resident precursor to SARSCoV2 has not yet been found but it is not RaTG13 itself, whose 96% similarity st…
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RT @michaelzlin: 3. The wild bat-resident precursor to SARSCoV2 has not yet been found but it is not RaTG13 itself, whose 96% similarity st…
RT @michaelzlin: 3. The wild bat-resident precursor to SARSCoV2 has not yet been found but it is not RaTG13 itself, whose 96% similarity st…
RT @michaelzlin: 3. The wild bat-resident precursor to SARSCoV2 has not yet been found but it is not RaTG13 itself, whose 96% similarity st…
@Flat6forever @timmmyrobin @smotus Ah, so it's the furin cleavage site that has them all in a lather. This site is absent from SARS-CoV-2's closest siblings, but is present in a number of its cousins: https://t.co/NyrWbV0y55 https://t.co/rcbE3T7h6Z https:
3. The wild bat-resident precursor to SARSCoV2 has not yet been found but it is not RaTG13 itself, whose 96% similarity still suggests 50 years of divergence from SARSCoV2. https://t.co/nGkVuhTdqj 7/n
@bpthaber https://t.co/vFFU1ELqFG ve https://t.co/hCB9q70L7c bunlari bi okusaymis keske. ve bunlar gibi dahasi var. neden "yapay" olmayacagini aciklamaya calisan makaleler. Bilimsel falan bilmem lazim olursa diye biraktim
#COVID19 Important: On the origins of the virus/its lineage. Makes the key point that chasing after an unlikely lab-leak (and its political payoff) risks diverting attention from identifying and containing a much higher zoonotic crossover risk. 👉 http
@BRUMSTOKIE @unojen_wood This extract from a study in 2020 certainly seems to indicate a link. https://t.co/g5hWO2LgMt https://t.co/nQP0Vc4ayS
RT @AtomsksSanakan: @mtracey Again, this was known for months. But the problem is the non-experts who like saying 'lab leak seems possible…
RT @AtomsksSanakan: @0bj3ctivity @GidMK Re: "People are only calling for a truly independent investigation." It'd be nice if those constan…
@0Newlife3 @andrewsacher @Ayjchan @mattwridley @luigi_warren @ydeigin Re: "then what's the problem w an investigation" There's already an investigation going on, with published results in the peer-reviewed literature, just as the origins of HIV, SARS-CoV-
@0bj3ctivity @GidMK Re: "People are only calling for a truly independent investigation." It'd be nice if those constantly whining for an investigation, bothered to actually learned about the published results of investigation so far. Enough of the willfu
RT @polaris9701: RaTG13が見つかったのは2013年だが、SARS-CoV-2との分岐は数十年前に起こっているので、https://t.co/kiVxoFc1yU
@JoshRosenau It's almost like you could compare the two viruses, even. https://t.co/T8YueA8o1l (This also willfully ignores all the work scientists have done on SARS-CoV-2's evolutionary history, like https://t.co/cKKszKnlZ8 & https://t.co/dMtTjC0R48)
@BeijingPalmer @Pinboard It's possible there is no intermediate host. Coronaviruses can jump directly from bats to humans. That would explain why we can't find any pangolins with COVID. https://t.co/kbXMdwgCNV
@vinroche @FoxNews Real scientists for you. https://t.co/UcGBPV13jq
@dionismatos Apreciado lector, tenga, lea un poco de ciencia, lo que leemos los médicos. No nos apoyamos en conspiración, bulos, o cuentos. Medicina basada en la evidencia. Pero claro, genio, tu ya sabias eso! https://t.co/numIqnuPz8 https://t.co/peHfXK
@IronTaleb @NoCatsNoMasters @mpp75214 @mattyglesias The SARS-COV-2 genome is 96% similar to bat coronavirus RaTG13. The differences between them all look to be the result of natural evolution and recombination. https://t.co/kbXMdwydFt
@robbysoave There is solid evidence that COVID 19 isn't a lab created virus, the main possibility on the lab leak theory is that a specimen of COVID was leaked by poor safety systems, NOT created there. Making a virus is difficult, finding them in nature
@solvealltheprob @B45155133 No evidence except science, you mean. https://t.co/oWISWPI2UX
@DrSunitKSingh @GidMK @picardonhealth @MackayIM Re: "This is what happening at present" No, it isn't. There's been over a year of scientists actually investigating the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and publishing their results. I'm tired of people asking for an
Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature Microbiology https://t.co/Hy0v73b5Iu #MeridianResponds
More evidence for the pangolin as the premier candidate for intermediate species.
@Illegalemigran1 @HappyEnginerd @WIRED I'm not sure if this is the right episode for that cleavage site. But they're all interesting so you'll learn something interesting either way. https://t.co/Ut09S9GETS the main paper they're taking about https://
@pathogenetics @RogerPielkeJr @curryja Again, it's not my job to teach you basic biology when you're a conspiracy theorist willfully ignorant of the published literature. https://t.co/CqgXfDxcXp https://t.co/xMYPrLWvEo https://t.co/NIJyOJQ7Hz
@babarlelephant @EnlightenedCri1 Re: "I'm telling you should forget about HKU9" I generally don't take advice from biology from anonymous accounts on Twitter using easily-rebutted talking points liked by lab conspiracists. https://t.co/CqgXfDxcXp https:
@Tom_Maguire @GidMK Re: "Are we making that kind of progress" You'd have to read the literature to know, which you paranoid conspiracy theorists don't bother to. You're too busy falling for tripe from Nicholas Wade. https://t.co/CqgXfDxcXp https://t.co/
@navedelmisterio Información falsa no, información acientifica sin absolutamente ningún rigor ni fundamento. Aquí una pequeña prueba del origen natural del Sars-Cov-2: https://t.co/AelJVPpSih
RT @Huck1995: For those wondering about the “new lab leak revelations”, we’ll be talking about it at our PPV on Saturday. But in short,…
For those wondering about the “new lab leak revelations”, we’ll be talking about it at our PPV on Saturday. But in short, the “new info” isn’t really new and hasn’t changed much. And below are some resources to give you some much needed background info
@GidMK Thread is dead on. Additional info for folks👇 Excellent paper looking at the evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2: https://t.co/zdnwvxsMj7 Related CoVs circulating in bats & pangolins: https://t.co/jK7ToqgoYK My patreon on these topics (help me
RaTG13が見つかったのは2013年だが、SARS-CoV-2との分岐は数十年前に起こっているので、https://t.co/kiVxoFc1yU
@MatteoCarandini A nice interview but it seems the "escape hypothesis" rests on circumstantial evidence & does not engage with the published virus sequence - e.g. highlighting where the fingerprints of existing technology are evident Plenty on the nat
@DocToDoctor3 @gorka_orive Aquí otro paper de otros autores de entidades sin relación alguna con Wuhan, con datación genética de la divergencia de linaje de los sarcovirus: https://t.co/AelJVPHtGR
@apklein51 If Mr. Wade claims there is no direct evidence for zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2, then I want to hear him mumble on about paleontology. https://t.co/q3zJyz4FMW
An interesting article in the journal #Nature, about the lineage of the #SARS #Coronavirus. A #disease like this has a #history and #evolution that can be studied to learn more. https://t.co/a22iNIOOJP #cdnpoli #abpoli #canpoli #bcpoli #onpoli
@duardoas Possivelmente não há recombinação com coronavírus de pangolim: https://t.co/mvzIn535e0
@PoliticusSarah Scientific article on origins of Covid - yes it could've jumped species. https://t.co/S74dpwAmgH
Nunes is flat out wrong. Zoonotic diseases do jump species (so much so it's an entire field of study). Moreover this study on Covid: https://t.co/S74dpwAmgH
@codytfenwick It's important to be careful about framing & approaching this question—who should investigate? How? There are already tons of peer-reviewed papers about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 It is incredibly fraught with racism, sinophobia, and cons
@Tornado_ir https://t.co/eNkZgxbXfR hier der Link zum Journal
@Perrid13 @joshrogin @PeterHotez @KateBolduan What about this... https://t.co/CUtecmRJOo
RT @ClaireBerlinski: 4. Then we have the well-known fact that the WIV was indeed conducting gain-of-function research--as they proudly expl…
@RepGallagher We KNOW our taxpayer dollars DID fund this:
Re SARS-CoV-2 "its receptor-binding motif, important for specificity to human ACE2 receptors, appears to be an ancestral trait shared with bat viruses and not one acquired recently via recombination." -meaning not engineered. https://t.co/S74dpwAmgH
@R_H_Ebright @Rosewind2007 @majadbee @michaelghead @SmutClyde @SameiHuda and the article by Wade is PURE conjecture. the correspondence in the Nature family Journal, Nature Medicine, was based on scientific data-it just wasn't newly generated for that arti
4. Then we have the well-known fact that the WIV was indeed conducting gain-of-function research--as they proudly explain in Nature: https://t.co/uLpRSNbVMJ https://t.co/owIgCWkUOT
https://t.co/uLpRSNbVMJ NB: "The SARS-CoV-2/RaTG13 common ancestor forms a clade of bat sarbecoviruses with generalist properties—with respect to their ability to infect a range of mammalian cells—that facilitated its jump to humans and may do so again."
@mtracey Again, this was known for months. But the problem is the non-experts who like saying 'lab leak seems possible', don't know enough on the biology to challenge Wade on this. https://t.co/CqgXfDxcXp https://t.co/zrnitS3Ixe https://t.co/Fc5Vvhx103
@curiouswavefn @OmicsOmicsBlog Imagine you are a nefarious bioengineer and wanted to do a GoF experiment, why would your starting point be an extant viral lineage that’s been barely characterized prior to this? https://t.co/0Ce24bawli
@MalcolmByrnes @Ayjchan @trikomes @mattwridley @Rossana38510044 Re: "Okay, give me a scenario" This is a great example of why so many experts in this field don't take you 'lab leak' conspiracy theorists seriously. You show paranoia, lack of knowledge in
@Ayjchan @mattwridley @luigi_warren @ydeigin 6/ In contrast, mainstream + competent scientists made evidence-based contributions to our understanding of the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, as happened for SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV, HIV (evolution from SIV), etc. htt
RT @pmarsupia: Qué pasada este estudio! El virus SARS-CoV y el virus SARS-CoV-2 se separaron genéticamente hacia el año 1.200 Estos virus…
@K_yo_enemy_now こちらを御一読下さい↓↓ 🙇 ネイチャーの記事です。 https://t.co/g6TmYRT3nX
RT @WendyOrent: There IS no growing consensus that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab. That's actually complete and utter nonsense.https://t.co…
There IS no growing consensus that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab. That's actually complete and utter nonsense.https://t.co/LqaYbe74Lb https://t.co/0RXZeJsNRl
RT @ydeigin: 🤦♂️Dude keeps finding ways to embarrass himself. Now he is denying SARS2 is chimeric when its spike protein CLEARLY is: its R…
RT @ydeigin: 🤦♂️Dude keeps finding ways to embarrass himself. Now he is denying SARS2 is chimeric when its spike protein CLEARLY is: its R…
RT @ydeigin: 🤦♂️Dude keeps finding ways to embarrass himself. Now he is denying SARS2 is chimeric when its spike protein CLEARLY is: its R…
@ydeigin via recombination".. Considering the same, would SARS-2 still be considered a chimeric virus? Just clarifying here.. https://t.co/U1RlghIxrS
RT @ydeigin: 🤦♂️Dude keeps finding ways to embarrass himself. Now he is denying SARS2 is chimeric when its spike protein CLEARLY is: its R…
RT @ydeigin: 🤦♂️Dude keeps finding ways to embarrass himself. Now he is denying SARS2 is chimeric when its spike protein CLEARLY is: its R…
RT @ydeigin: 🤦♂️Dude keeps finding ways to embarrass himself. Now he is denying SARS2 is chimeric when its spike protein CLEARLY is: its R…
RT @ydeigin: 🤦♂️Dude keeps finding ways to embarrass himself. Now he is denying SARS2 is chimeric when its spike protein CLEARLY is: its R…
RT @ydeigin: 🤦♂️Dude keeps finding ways to embarrass himself. Now he is denying SARS2 is chimeric when its spike protein CLEARLY is: its R…