Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research is the summary of a two-day public symposium on Gain of Function (GOF) research. Convened in December 2014 by the National Research Council ...

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 ...

On May 5, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending federal funding for gain-of-function (GoF) research that the administration considers dangerous. GoF research helps ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo dared challenge the prevailing views of his time, facing persecution for his belief that the earth revolved around the sun. Today, echoes of this opposition to science ...

Newly released documents suggest that National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff relied on the word of the president of a non-governmental U.S. research group that it was funding to decide whether its ...

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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 ...