Global Health – Humans may have suffered a large coronavirus outbreak before Covid. Here’s what our DNA can tell us (Yassine Souilmi, Ray Tobler, The Conversation, EF)

  • A coronavirus may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago.
  • New research has found evidence of genetic adaptation to the coronavirus family of viruses in 42 genes in modern populations among the region.
  • Aside from SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, the coronavirus family also includes the related MERS and SARS viruses.
  • By uncovering the genes impacted by historical viral outbreaks, researchers can gain greater insight into our evolutionary genetic ability to fight disease.

Study: A coronavirus may have spread 20,000 years ago | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)

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Marco Emanuele è appassionato di cultura della complessità, cultura della tecnologia e relazioni internazionali. Approfondisce il pensiero di Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. Marco ha insegnato Evoluzione della Democrazia e Totalitarismi, è l’editor di The Global Eye e scrive per The Science of Where Magazine. Marco Emanuele is passionate about complexity culture, technology culture and international relations. He delves into the thought of Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. He has taught Evolution of Democracy and Totalitarianisms. Marco is editor of The Global Eye and writes for The Science of Where Magazine.

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