Private channel session 762
5 messages over 1h 21m, 2021-01-05 – 2021-01-05.
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"I'd love to be the one breaking _that_ news." I agree with Eddie and Andrew, I think you should be breaking the news, too. We need to report the 12 base insertion in cell culture - need to look to see if it's in or - like the PRRA -out of frame. The cell culture indels have all been deletions around the FCS afaik and Brandon's vero passage did some of those as well.
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Oh James - only took two emails to go from "maybe a point" to off the deep end. Simply reveals - yet again - that myidiot-radar is not so good. It's how I ended up with @Covidfaker and "A Lina" in my lab.
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Had to go back and reread PO1. "3. Selection during passage" IS actually he third choice. Just sayin'.
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And, Baker's article is dangerous not fantastic. Calling for a halt in bat trapping as Baker and Alina have done isreally really stupid. We definitely must figure out the range of natural diversity in betacoronaviruses and that is goingto have to involve scientists going out and trapping bats. [shared file(s): image.png]
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Bloom lab killing it: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.31.425021v1.full.pdf