Socio-Economics History Blog

Socio-Economics History Blog

‘This is Playing With Fire – It Could Spark a Lab-Generated Pandemic’: Experts Slam Boston Lab Where Scientists Have Created a New Deadly Covid Strain With An 80% Kill Rate

by mosesman
In the new research , which has not been peer-reviewed, a team of researchers from Boston and Florida extracted Omicron’s spike protein — the unique structure that binds to and invades human cells. It has always been present but it has become more evolved over time. Omicron has dozens of mutations in its spike protein that made it so infectious. Researchers attached Omicron’s spike protein to the original wildtype strain that first emerged in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic. The researchers looked at how mice fared under the new hybrid strain compared to the original Omicron variant

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