{"id":108394,"date":"2020-06-08T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/controversial-coronavirus-lab-origin-claims-dismissed-by-experts"},"modified":"2020-06-08T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T02:22:31","slug":"controversial-coronavirus-lab-origin-claims-dismissed-by-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/controversial-coronavirus-lab-origin-claims-dismissed-by-experts","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Coronavirus Lab Origin Claims Dismissed By Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controversial-coronavirus-lab-origin-claims-dismissed-by-experts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cProperties that have never been found in nature\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New claims that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was engineered have been dismissed by scientific and intelligence experts.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of a British-Norwegian vaccine study\u2014accepted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/DBBC0FA6E3763B0067CAAD8F3363E527\/S2633289220000083a.pdf\/biovacc19_a_candidate_vaccine_for_covid19_sarscov2_developed_from_analysis_of_its_general_method_of_action_for_infectivity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/DBBC0FA6E3763B0067CAAD8F3363E527\/S2633289220000083a.pdf\/biovacc19_a_candidate_vaccine_for_covid19_sarscov2_developed_from_analysis_of_its_general_method_of_action_for_infectivity.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Quarterly Review of Biophysics\"><em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/DBBC0FA6E3763B0067CAAD8F3363E527\/S2633289220000083a.pdf\/biovacc19_a_candidate_vaccine_for_covid19_sarscov2_developed_from_analysis_of_its_general_method_of_action_for_infectivity.pdf\">Quarterly Review of Biophysics<\/em><\/a>\u2014claim that the coronavirus\u2019s spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper, the Norwegian scientist Birger S\u00f8rensen and British oncologist Angus Dalgleish claim to have identified \u201cinserted sections placed on the SARS-CoV-2 spike surface\u201d that explains how the virus interacts with cells in the human body. Virologists, however, note that similar sections appear naturally in other viruses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cProperties that have never been found in nature\u201d New claims that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was engineered have been dismissed by scientific and intelligence experts. The authors of a British-Norwegian vaccine study\u2014accepted by the Quarterly Review of Biophysics\u2014claim that the coronavirus\u2019s spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted. In their paper, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108394","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}