Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells.
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Editors’ note, March 2020 We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.
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Butler, D. Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research . Nature (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.18787
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