Gestalte mit Photoshop die Welt nach deinen VorstellungenResearchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology have found a new branch in the family tree of bat coronaviruses. The viruses, described in a preprint paper released last Friday, are more distantly related to the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 than several other known viruses, the researchers said, but have high levels of similarity across certain areas of the genome.
The region has been singled out by the WHO as an important area for further research into the origins of Covid-19, although it is unclear whether such work is under way. In the recent paper, the Wuhan researchers said that their work and other recent discoveries highlight the potential for the related coronaviruses to swap parts and further adapt, perhaps via other species, before spreading in humans – a process which could have given rise to Covid-19.
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