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 experiments can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. But they're also used for many other areas of study within biology.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and HHS are pausing funding on new research related to certain “gain-of-function studies.” In gain-of-function studies, researchers increase the ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that NIAID had told STAT that the gain-of-function study involving mpox was never formally proposed. That information was relayed from ...

Gain-of-function research became controversial during the COVID-19 pandemic. But without it, “we’re just flying in the dark” when it comes to H5N1, said Felicia Goodrum, a molecular virologist at the ...

If COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab as a result of U.S.-funded gain-of-function research, is Donald Trump to blame? It was under the Trump administration in 2017 when the National Institutes of ...

A fiery exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, during a congressional hearing on Tuesday is bringing attention once again to a type of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts ...

If COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab as a result of U.S.-funded gain-of-function research, is Donald Trump to blame? The New York Times opinion writer David Wallace-Wells seems to imply the answer is ...