{"id":105762,"date":"2020-04-19T22:43:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate"},"modified":"2020-04-19T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T05:43:30","slug":"lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate","title":{"rendered":"Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015. The nature publishing has since been pulled down, but I am looking for it. I think I downloaded the pdf.<\/p>\n<p>Infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team\u2019s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team\u2019s results, which were published in Nature Medicine.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Update (March 11, 2020): On social media and news outlets, a theory has circulated that the coronavirus at the root of the COVID-19 outbreak originated in a research lab. Scientists say there is <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/theory-that-coronavirus-escaped-from-a-lab-lacks-evidence-67229\"><em>no evidence<\/em><\/a><em> that the SARS-CoV-2 virus escaped from a lab.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"display:none;\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate2.jpg\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015. The nature publishing has since been pulled down, but I am looking for it. I think I downloaded the pdf. Infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team\u2019s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105762","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}