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.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday updating guidance for researchers and government agencies with the aim of stopping federal funding for foreign research that generates new ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order prohibiting federal funds from being used for the controversial research known as “Gain of Function” in countries where sufficient oversight is not ...

President Donald Trump could sign a sweeping executive order banning gain-of-function research — research that makes viruses more dangerous in the lab — as soon as May 6, according to a source who has ...

President Donald Trump is continuing to promote the unsupported “lab leak” COVID-19 theory, using it now to rationalize a new executive order designed to prohibit federal funding of certain research ...

The National Institutes of Health will terminate all funding for grants involving risky gain-of-function research and give researchers until the end of June to say whether their grants comply with ...

President Trump on Monday moved to cut off federal funding for so-called gain-of-function research and implied such work could have been responsible for triggering the COVID-19 pandemic. Why it ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning funding on research that could lead to another pandemic. The president signed the order Monday afternoon, which, as the White House said, “will ...