2️⃣ Naah, MHV plays stress granules like a pro: show up late, strip out the translation machinery, keep your RNA away, and let these 'empty shells' persist while you replicate freely.

Moh covers a #preprint from @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social & team

#preLight⬇️
prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...

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#ndfunibern

For a detailed scientific evaluation and assessment of the data, it is therefore essential that the source data is made publicly available. This is of great scientific and public interest in order to arrive at an evidence-based assessment of the question of the origin of #COVID.

...I would also like to point out that the source of the data was not made accessible to the scientific panel. It was therefore not possible to make a scientific judgement. In principle, this task should not fall solely on a select group of scientists...

...The discussions were confidential and therefore I am unable to comment on the content.

What I can say is that I agree with the opinion already expressed by Prof. Christian Drosten, who was impressed with the summarised presentation of the results. However...

...a clear difference in likelihood between the competing explanations.
Recently, it became known that there was a further investigation by a Secret Service, this time in Germany #BND. A group of scientists, including myself, were invited as experts to discuss and evaluate their conclusions...