Synthetic coronavirus created with brewer’s yeast comes with research options, hope and a warning

Scientists have created a fully synthesised strain of the coronavirus with brewer’s yeast, according to a new study from Europe.This development would help “provide an infectious virus to health authorities and diagnostic laboratories without the need of having access to clinical samples”, said the researchers led by Joerg Jores and Volker Thiel from the University of Bern in Switzerland, in a paper published in Nature on Monday.The man-made strains not only returned almost identical sequence…

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