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I'm going to sleep on this and perhaps send something tomorrow. She is directly accusing me. [2020-10-26 03:58:12] [Robert Garry] Alina's new BFFs: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1320376404102377472.html "Unpublished passage experiment in either human cells or humanized mice, which resulted in the accidental "sampling" of internal GOF work that were then erroneously reported as a "coronavirus infection" in the pangolin samples, leading to the Viruses paper by Liu et al." [2020-10-26 09:34:58] [Robert Garry] Added the cat coronaviruses - fit the pattern of in-frame inserts and predicted O-linked glycans ----working on a Virological post [2020-10-26 09:35:22] [Robert Garry] here the new figure - needs a little cleaning [shared file(s): image.png] [2020-10-26 09:36:25] [Kristian Andersen] This is great! [2020-10-26 09:36:28] [Robert Garry] Similar thing re the insertion in reverse on the S2' site [2020-10-26 09:39:20] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, very nice/interesting - imagine that, evolution allowed a virus to pick up a few additional AAs creating a super functional site.... Who would have known. [2020-10-26 09:40:56] [Robert Garry] Yeah - hard to blame on the CCP... [2020-10-26 09:42:17] [Robert Garry] Not surprisingly, the insert alters pathogenesis of the cat virus... [2020-10-26 09:48:39] [Kristian Andersen] Oh, didn't know that - the FCS 'version' is worse? [2020-10-26 09:52:57] [Robert Garry] https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/2020/10/20/covid-19-cat-infected-euthanized-pennsylvania-c oronavirus/5991097002/ [2020-10-26 09:55:39] [Robert Garry] file:///Users/robertgarry/Downloads/viruses-12-00083%20(1).pdf [2020-10-26 09:56:14] [Robert Garry] it's complicated...