Scientists from China and the United States have planned to collaborate on the development of a new coronavirus not found in nature, leaked documents pertaining to a grant application revealed. The grant proposal was obtained by the activist group called Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19 or DRASTIC and was submitted to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), showing how the American research non-profit EcoHealth Alliance planned to work with Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to create a new virus using the funding. “We will compile sequence/RNAseq data from a panel of closely related strains and compare full length genomes, scanning for unique SNPs representing sequencing errors,” the grant application read, as per Yahoo! News. “Consensus candidate genomes will be synthesised commercially using established techniques and genome-length RNA and electroporation to recover recombinant viruses.” A … Continue reading US/Wuhan Scientists Planned To Create More Coronaviruses Suggests Recent Leak.