The University's research took the spike protein from the BA.1 omicron variant and placed it on the original strain of the COVID-19 virus.
which was spread widely, claimed that is exactly what researchers did at the school.
And it says, too, that it did combine the omicron variant’s spike protein with the original virus for testing on mice. And, at first glance, the tests do sound a bit ominous. Because, according to reports, when the researchers infected mice with the BA.1 omicron variant they mostly had mild cases and survived. But when they gave them the original COVID-19 virus with the new omicron spike protein 80-percent of the mice died.
“First, this research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplify the Washington state SARS-COV-2 virus strain or make it more dangerous,” Boston University said in a statement while calling the reports that suggested they did so “false and inaccurate.”The research reportedly shows that it is not the spike protein that “drives Omicron pathogenicity, but instead other viral proteins,” the lead study author Mohsan Saeed said according to the Boston Herald.
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