This was covered extensively in a thread yesterday. The author of the article is not a virologist but rather a computer nerd with a specialty in bio-science. The reason the article was withdrawn is that real virologists were critical of it. The publisher is not a peer reviewed site, but rather a pre-publishing site used to check for duplicate plagiarism in papers before submission by comparison with already published papers.
A Freepers son who is in the field wrote a criticism that pointed out it’s not unusual to get false duplicate strands like what is being reported.
Should I ask admin moderator to remove this? If it’s been discredited, I don’t want to leave it.
I was just commenting the same thing. He is working on a theory, he is not stating it is fact.
He should keep his theory close to himself. They are talking about him across a lot of forum/sites now. This could ruin his career.
The question is what viral proteins are encoded by the strands.
And how that affects the binding of the virus; either effectiveness, or sites, or both.
And then, how those strands or the overall protein spike used for binding, differ in this compared to the clisest natural wild relatives found in species native to Wuhan.