Evidence of "Directed Evolution"
Molnupiravir: coding for catastrophe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-021-00657-8
"Molnupiravir, a wide-spectrum antiviral that is currently in phase 2/3 clinical trials for the treatment of COVID-19, is proposed to inhibit viral replication by a mechanism known as ‘lethal mutagenesis’. Two recently published studies reveal the biochemical and structural bases of how molnupiravir disrupts the fidelity of SARS-CoV-2 genome replication and prevents viral propagation by fostering error accumulation in a process referred to as ‘error catastrophe’."
What happens when the drug Molnupiravir only creates some mutations instead of lethal mutagenesis? We get more mutants as shown below.
"What we establish here is that this signature of molnupiravir-mutagenesis is present in global sequencing databases, and that in some cases viruses with a considerable number of molnupiravir-induced mutations have been transmitted to other individuals."
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