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- From the archives: Hunting viruses
60 Minutes Overtime
In a 2004 report, Scott Pelley traveled to Malaysia, where Peter Daszak was capturing bats to determine the source of Nipa virus.
- Profile of a killer: the complex biology powering the coronavirus pandemic
David Cyranoski, Nature 581, 22-26 (May 4, 2020)
Scientists are piecing together how SARS-CoV-2 operates, where it came from and what it might do next — but pressing questions remain about the source of COVID-19
- Snopes: Did This Nobel Prize Winner Say COVID-19 Was Created in a Lab?
Dan Evon, Snopes, 29 April 2020
2008 Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier said that COVID-19 coronavirus disease was artificially created in a lab by biologists working on an AIDS vaccine.... In fact, a peer-reviewed study from the Scripps Research Institute that was published in the journal Nature in March 2020 found “no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.”
- The D614G mutation in SARS-CoV-2 Spike increases transduction of multiple human cell types
Zharko Daniloski, Xinyi Guo, Neville E. Sanjana. bioRxiv
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.14.151357
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Lizhou Zhang, Cody B Jackson, Huihui Mou, Amrita Ojha, Erumbi S Rangarajan, Tina Izard, Michael Farzan, Hyeryun Choe
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Pieter A.Cohen, LaraHall, Janice N.Johns, Alison B.Rapoport. Mayo Clinic Proceedings
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- The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients
Richard Levitan, New York Times, April 20, 2020
Dr. Levitan is an emergency doctor. This is what he learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital.
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Roman Wölfel, Victor M. Corman, Wolfgang Guggemos, Michael Seilmaier, et al. Nature 1 April 2020. Accelerated Article Preview
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