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🇺🇸🦠@COVID19Up: Fresh suspicion that SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab emerged this week after scientists announced they had found a genetic insert—CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG—in the spike protein of the virus that only exists in Moderna patent 9,587,003 from three years before the pandemic.
The patented sequence is part of a gene called MSH3 that is known to affect how damaged cells repair themselves in the body.
In their study, published Monday (Feb. 21) in Frontiers in Virology, researchers compared SARS-CoV-2’s makeup—which is made up of 30,000 letters of genetic code—to millions of sequenced proteins in a massive online database.
That’s when they discovered a genetic sequence owned by Moderna in SARS-CoV-2’s unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good at infecting humans and separates it from other coronaviruses.
