RealClearScience

The Gain-of-Function Experiment That Could 'Eliminate Humans From the Face of the Earth'

A Google search for "Frio Cave" makes the Uvalde County, Texas destination look like a tourists' dream. One quickly learns that the cave is home to tens of millions of Mexican free-tailed bats, and ...
Yahoo

Gain-of-function research is more than just tweaking risky viruses – it's a routine and essential tool in all biology research

Gain-of-function experiments in the lab can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. KTSDesign/Science Photo Library via Getty Images As ...
Live Science

Trump admin wants to curtail 'gain-of-function' research — but it's a cornerstone of biology, scientists say

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.
Washington Examiner

Why we worry at night about gain-of-function research

Disease X is an unknown pathogen capable of causing a devastating pandemic. This term was coined by the World Health Organization in 2018 and was under discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...
World Socialist Web Site

Boston University study on Omicron variant smeared as dangerous gain-of-function research by right-wing reactionaries

Researchers investigating the SARS-CoV-2 virus conducted at Boston University’s (BU) National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories (NEIDL), one of the world’s safest facilities for work on deadly ...
The Conversation

‘Gain of function’ research can create experimental viruses. In light of COVID, it should be more strictly regulated – or banned

Colin D. Butler is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Doctors for the Environment, Australia. The United Nations Environment Programme recently published a scientific review that looks ...