Congress is considering a massive overhaul of the nation’s scientific enterprise, much of it in the name of ensuring competitiveness with China and other nations that are pouring billions into ...

There have been plenty of controversies recently over something called gain-of-function research. Amid the highly-politicized debate over the origin of the COVID-19 virus, the term has been thrown ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve heard a lot about gain-of-function research, and some of its risks, particularly regarding the possible creation of dangerous pathogens. But there’s a lot ...

The term "gain of function" is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts society at risk of an infectious disease outbreak for questionable gain. Some research on emerging viruses can ...

French engineer-virologist Thomas Mollet looks at 24 well plates adherent cells monolayer infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus at the Biosafety level 3 laboratory (BSL3) of the Valneva SE Group ...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the ...

The United Nations Environment Program recently published a scientific review that looks at environmental threats and risks in light of the COVID pandemic. It analyzes links between human infectious ...

Science is about fathoming how the natural world works and dreaming up machines, drugs, and vaccines that make life on the planet a little easier. Understanding and imagination allow scientists to ...

Gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has widely been suspected as a source of the pandemic. "What they were doing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was taking ...

It was the first thought to cross the mind of computational biologist Steven Salzberg after reading about a recent Boston University study that combined strains of the virus that causes COVID-19, ...

A letter written by Dr. Lawrence Tabak has been cited as proof that the National Institutes of Health funded “gain of function” research in Wuhan, China, despite denials from U.S. health officials.

DISQUIET IS growing about “gain-of-function” (GOF) research, a form of genetic manipulation on micro-organisms. Some anxiety stems from the idea that such work was responsible for creating SARS-CoV-2, ...