David Gillum, Senior Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Chief Safety Officer, Arizona State University, Rebecca Moritz, Biosafety Director and Responsible Official, Colorado State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gain-of-function research (GOFR) refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility, virulence, immunogenicity, and host tropism by applying selective pressure to a ...

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 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.

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 ...

Dr. Roger Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and biosafety expert, is contesting NIH director Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony before the Senate Health, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Wessner is a virologist who covers infectious diseases. Mar 09, 2023, 10:04am EST This article is more than 2 years old. A ...

Due to unanswered questions into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, both the U.S. government and scientists have called for a deeper examination into the validity of claims that a virus could ...