Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Any organism can acquire a new ability or property, or “gain” a “function.” This can happen through natural selection or a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gain-of-function experiments in the lab can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people ...
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 ...
As the administration considers new policies for gain-of-function research, scientists have an important role to play in evaluating risks and benefits—but only with a commitment to fair and rigorous ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The question of whether the COVID-19 virus escaped from a lab in China instead of being passed in nature from an animal to a human has become a hotly debated one. Part of that debate has centered on a ...
Talk of “gain-of-function” research, a muddy category at best, brings up deep questions about how scientists should study viruses and other pathogens. By Carl Zimmer and James Gorman At a Senate ...
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 ...
Senior Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Chief Safety Officer, Arizona State University David Gillum is the past president of the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) ...