How biological detective work can reveal who engineered a virus

Photo caption: Bio labs leave their distinctive traces on DNA and RNA they engineer. Photo credit: Frederick Florin / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Kelsey Piper. Vox – October 24, 2021.

Exciting new research should make it easier to hold rogue bioengineers accountable.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, wasn’t intentionally created in a lab. We don’t have much evidence one way or the other whether its emergence into the world was the result of a lab accident or a natural jump from animal to human, but we know for sure that the virus is not the product of deliberate gene editing in a lab. […]

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