Scientists publish claim to have discovered HIV genes in coronavirus RNA (opens in new tab)

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17 pointsajna916y ago7 comments

7 comments

It is an RNA virus. Please update title to stop spreading fake nucleic acid news.

> 22. The authors dunked this final conclusion: “This uncanny similarity of novel inserts in the 2019- nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag is unlikely to be fortuitous”. Wow, they sure just went straight there! What a bold paper... I don’t know what to say ️

From this paper:

https://biorxiv-cache.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/2020.01.30....

mads6y ago

Well, Wuhan does have a BSL4 lab, so....

rasz6y ago

so did Raccoon City, even the lab logos match :)

drannex6y ago

This is widely inaccurate. Please remove the post or update te title.

dang6y ago

Updated. There is discussion of this paper, such as it is, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22205705 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22204866.

exabrial6y ago

Please fix the title before we spread fake news.