By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD
This text was originally posted as a Twitter/X thread. We are reposting it (minus a few typos) as a short essay.
1/ Many people on Twitter are, like Nicholas Wade, wondering if the latest DEFUSE grant revelations from @emilyakopp and @USRTK are maybe the last word on the great #covidorigin #lableak debate. They are not.
2/ Why? Because they only deepen the mystery. The short answer is that six hallmark sites of reverse engineering identified by Bruttel et al: (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.18.512756v1) only explain 0.1% or less of the #SARS-CoV-2 genome.More
