"Engineering Coronaviruses to Evaluate Emergence and Pathogenic Potential" (academic article from June, 2016)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

Certainly this research bears no relevance to "the new coronavirus." 

MCM

 

Volume 24, Issue 6, June 2016, Pages 427-429

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Engineering Coronaviruses to Evaluate Emergence and Pathogenic Potential

Susanna K.P.Lau12345Patrick C.Y.Woo12345

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2016.04.001Get rights and content

A recent study provides a platform for generating infectious coronavirus genomes using sequence data, examining their capabilities of replicating in human cells and causing diseases in animal models, and evaluating therapeutics and vaccines. Similar approaches could be used to assess the potential of human emergence and pathogenicity for other viruses.

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