• Scientists Found New Chinese Data Hinting at the Origin of COVID-19. Then It Was Deleted

    13 days ago - By Time

    In another twist to the ongoing search for where COVID-19 originated, an international group of researchers stumbled upon new genetic material that had been posted on a public scientific database-and then abruptly deleted.
    As first reported in the Atlantic , in early March, Florence Debarre, an evolutionary biologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, was searching the public database GISAID, where scientists upload genetic sequences of pathogens they study. On the site, she found sequences from samples collected in Jan. 2020 from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in...
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