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I am reasonably sure that the covid virus was man made. But I strongly doubt that Moderna had anything to do with it.
But the article cited says "Writing in the paper, led by Dr Balamurali Ambati, from the University of Oregon, the researchers said the matching code may have originally been introduced to the Covid genome through infected human cells expressing the MSH3 gene.
Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick University, admitted the latest finding was interesting but claimed it was not significant enough to suggest lab manipulation.
He told MailOnline: 'We're talking about a very, very, very small piece made up of 19 nucleotides.
'So it doesn't mean very much to be frank, if you do these types of searches you can always find matches.
'Sometimes these things happen fortuitously, sometimes it's the result of convergent evolution (when organisms evolve independently to have similar traits to adapt to their environment).
'It's a quirky observation but I wouldn't call it a smoking gun because it's too small.
He added: 'It doesn't get us any further with the debate about whether Covid was engineered.'
Dr Simon Clarke, a microbiologist at Reading University, questioned whether the find was as rare as the study claims.
He told MailOnline: 'There can only be a certain number of [genetic combinations within] furin cleavage sites.
'They function like a lock and key in the cell, and the two only fit together in a limited number of combinations.
'So it's an interesting coincidence but this is surely entirely coincidental.'
It appears that the scientists are saying that this is coincidental, but the Daily Mail could be sensationalizing the headline also.
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