Despite the importance of GoF modifications, they have sometimes faced misplaced concerns or opposition that could lead to their being overregulated or even banned.

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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 ...

On July 11, I received a letter from the National Institutes of Health ordering me to stop my research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, because the work was ...

Stanley is an associate professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman distinguished chair in the biological sciences as well as faculty director for the Alliance for Global Health and Science at the ...

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

(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 ...

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 ...