Reports on Monday had said the school's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories had created a new, deadlier version of the virus There's some friction between the federal government and Boston University researchers after the publication of a new COVID-19 study. BU said reports by some publications saying they had created a new "deadly" COVID strain are misleading and untrue. “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,” BU said in a statement, calling online reports Monday "false and inaccurate." "In fact,...