Wuhan and US team planned to engineer new virus
Sarah Knapton
London | Wuhan and US scientists were planning to create entirely new coronaviruses that did not exist in nature by combining the genetic code of other viruses, proposals show.
Documents leaked last month of a grant application submitted to the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), reveal the international team of scientists was planning to mix genetic data of closely related strains, and grow new viruses.
The Telegraph London
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