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Just in case you thought Covid wasn’t bad or dangerous enough, Boston University is working to increase its lethality.

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In its latest defense of gain of function research, the university claims it is not that dangerous.

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The recently identified, globally predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (BA.1) is highly transmissible

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Even in fully vaccinated individuals, and causes attenuated disease compared with other major viral variants recognized to date.

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We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant.

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The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor binding motif (RBM),

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yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell lines and primary-like distal lung cells.

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