NIH files reveal broader coronavirus engineering research before COVID-19

from U.S. Right to Know articles · host Lewis Kamb

Documents show scientists across multiple U.S.-funded projects proposed altering spike proteins and cleavage sites in bat viruses — work that echoed ideas later floated in the controversial DEFUSE proposal

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