To thepoodlebites: Is this the study you remember? Full version here:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full
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That’s it, I specifically remember the colorful illustrations in Figure 3. Thank you so much. Knowing what we know now, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus shows evidence of bioengineering and most likely escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, this pre-print represents valid work that was done soon after the Covid-19 outbreak but was subsequently pulled by the powers-that-be.
From the paper:
We found four new insertions in the protein of 2019-nCoV- “GTNGTKR” (IS1), “HKNNKS” (IS2), “GDSSSG” (IS3) and “QTNSPRRA” (IS4) (Figure 2). To our surprise, these sequence insertions were not only absent in S protein of SARS but were also not observed in any other member of the Coronaviridae family (Supplementary figure). This is startling as it is quite unlikely for a virus to have acquired such unique insertions naturally in a short duration of time.
You are most welcome, but the credit goes to Pelham (see #115). I’ve always thought it was leaked from that leaky Wuhan lab. Compelling evidence here:
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/