UK scientists created mutant Covid strains in 'high-risk, low-benefit' lab experiments | Daily Mail Online

UK scientists created mutant Covid strains in 'high-risk, low-benefit' lab experiments | Daily Mail Online: UK scientists created mutant Covid strains in 'high-risk, low-benefit' lab experiments: SAGE-linked team comes under fire amid calls for more regulation over controversial 'gain-of-function' research Hamsters were infected with mutant viruses, blends of original Wuhan strain and parts of Omicron or Delta Critics of the lab experiments, carried out by Imperial College London earlier this year, called it 'insanity' Twenty scientists were involved in the project, including one who sits on Government advisory panel SAGE But the university insists study, part-funded by the taxpayer, followed UK regulations and was entirely safe Our revelation comes amid ongoing furore over similar Covid experiments in the US, at Boston University