Exactly what its words mean. Attempts to add a function to a pathogen, usually a virus.
This could mean making it airborne. Could mean getting it to fight cancer. Could mean making it 10x more infectious. Call it viral modification research.
For COVID, it looks like the HIV spike protein was added to the 2004 SARS coronavirus in order to increase the cardiovascular problems it causes. It gained the functions of attacking immune cells and triggering capillary clots.
Exactly what its words mean. Attempts to add a function to a pathogen, usually a virus.
This could mean making it airborne. Could mean getting it to fight cancer. Could mean making it 10x more infectious. Call it viral modification research.
For COVID, it looks like the HIV spike protein was added to the 2004 SARS coronavirus in order to increase the cardiovascular problems it causes. It gained the functions of attacking immune cells and triggering capillary clots.
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