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<font face="{{{font}}}">“The SARS-Co … <font face="{{{font}}}">“The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus features a so-called ''furin cleavage site'' (FCS), which makes the virus more infectious and virulent than it would otherwise be. Such an FCS is not known in any other SARS-like coronavirus, but it is often inserted as part of gain-of-function studies in virus research. However, similar FCS are known to occur in non-SARS-like coronaviruses, hence a natural origin cannot be excluded based on this. The furin cleavage site found in SARS-CoV-2 uses an arginine (amino acid) double codon, which is rather rare in natural coronaviruses, but quite common in engineered viruses used in lab experiments (...)”ngineered viruses used in lab experiments (...)” +
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