Boston University COVID strain

1 day agoResearchers at Boston University say they have developed a new COVID strain that has an 80 kill rate following a series of similar experiments first thought to have started the global pandemic. 6 hours agoAs Boston University refutes sensationalist reports that their researchers created a new more deadly COVID strain local doctors who have been tracking the course of the pandemic are saying.

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Like many colleges and universities Boston University continues to navigate challenges to campus life because of COVID-19.

. At least that is what the University is saying after reports such as this Fox News report which was. 6 hours agoPotentially unauthorized experiments creating deadly hybrid COVID strains. 20 hours agoThe Brink staff.

16 hours agoBoston University did not create a new more lethal strain of COVID-19 in its laboratory. First this research is not gain-of-function research meaning it did not amplify the Washington state. BU said reports by some publications saying they had created a new deadly COVID strain are misleading and untrue.

Last Friday Boston Universitys National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories released data claiming that it had combined the original strain of COVID with the omicron variant resulting in a new strain of COVID that killed 80 of mice in the trial. Boston University is refuting a series of misleading claims about research at the Universitys National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories NEIDL. The reports which first appeared on Monday in the United Kingdoms Daily Mail claimed researchers at the lab had created a new deadly COVID strain.

3 hours agoBoston University is defending its research of testing a created COVID strain on mice as the college emphasized that the university fulfilled all required regulatory obligations and protocols. 1 day agoBoston University scientists were today condemned for playing with fire after it emerged they had created a lethal new Covid strain in a laboratory. Although we have retired the Back2BU and Healthway websitesand some of our COVID-related policies such as mandatory masking in classrooms and required weekly surveillance testingwe will.

First this research is not gain-of-function research meaning it did not amplify the Washington state SARS-COV-2 virus strain original virus from 2020 or make it more dangerous the university told Boston Herald following a flood of breathless headlines it dubbed as false and. 17 hours agoTheres some friction between the federal government and Boston University researchers after the publication of a new COVID-19 study. 12 hours agoUniversity slams false and inaccurate reports.

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