The US Will Fund Research to Make Pathogens Deadlier Again

By Daniel Oberhaus | MOTHERBOARD | December 19, 2017 On Tuesday, the US National Institutes of Health, the largest biomedical research agency in the world, announced that it would be ending a three-year moratorium on research funding for projects that involve making pathogens stronger and deadlier than they are in nature. Known as “gain-of-function” studies, […]

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