{"id":104068,"date":"2020-03-21T05:05:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/the-new-coronavirus-was-not-genetically-engineered-study-shows"},"modified":"2020-03-21T05:05:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:05:33","slug":"the-new-coronavirus-was-not-genetically-engineered-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/the-new-coronavirus-was-not-genetically-engineered-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"The new coronavirus was not genetically engineered, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-new-coronavirus-was-not-genetically-engineered-study-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Josie Golding, Ph.D., who is the epidemics lead at the Wellcome Trust, a research charity based in London, United Kingdom, did not participate in the study but comments on its significance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She says the findings are \u201ccrucially important to bring an evidence-based view to the rumors that have been circulating about the origins of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) causing COVID-19.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The authors] conclude that the virus is the product of natural evolution,\u201d Goulding adds, \u201cending any speculation about deliberate genetic engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josie Golding, Ph.D., who is the epidemics lead at the Wellcome Trust, a research charity based in London, United Kingdom, did not participate in the study but comments on its significance. She says the findings are \u201ccrucially important to bring an evidence-based view to the rumors that have been circulating about the origins of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}