This second symposium on Gain-of-Function (GOF) research focused on the draft recommendations of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. The meeting provided a mechanism to engage the ...

Trump signed an executive order banning federal funds for ‘gain of function’ research abroad The research alters viruses to increase transmissibility or severity in the name of preparedness Scientists ...

Gain-of-function research became especially controversial and politically polarized during the COVID-19 pandemic. One theory states the SARS-CoV-2 virus spilled out of a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. The research, ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known... President Trump issued an executive order Monday ...