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Where did COVID come from? Are infected animals or a lab leak to blame for the pandemic?
Preliminary re-analysis of genomic data collected at the Wuhan market suggests that the initial transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from an infected animal to a human, which started the COVID-19 pandemic, occurred right there. On the other hand, a recent thorough analysis of bat coronavirus genomes studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology did not confirm that the strains under investigation belonged to the closest ancestors of SARS-CoV-2. Is it finally clear how the pandemic originated?
A Cloned Monkey Survived to Adulthood for the First Time. Will We Soon Be Able to Clone Humans?
A macaque named ReTro, born as a result of a cloning experiment by Chinese scientists, has reached…