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Will Jay Bhattacharya Get Gain-of-Function Research Under Control?
In a party-line vote last evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Stanford professor and medical researcher Jay Bhattacharya as ...
NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — after years of denials
At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that ...
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Moratorium on Gain-of-Function Research
Last month, the government released new regulations regarding dual-use research, but interestingly, gain-of-function research was omitted from the report. Now, the ... Jef Akst was managing editor of ...
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Gain-of-Function Research: A Second Symposium
On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public symposium on potential U.S. government policies for the oversight of gain-of- function (GOF) research.
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Megyn Kelly convinced Anthony Fauci ‘started the COVID pandemic’
Podcaster Megyn Kelly boldly asserted her belief that retired NIAID director Anthony Fauci "started the COVID pandemic." ...
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gain-of-function research
In the wake of a handful of biosafety lapses at federal research facilities, the US government is temporarily halting funding for new studies aiming to give novel functions to influenza, SARS, and ...