President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. The research, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts ...

In the advent of President Donald Trump’s second term, four significant actions related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath took place in quick succession. First, the Department of Health and ...

Scientists have long debated the merits and risks of tinkering with viruses and bacteria, which the president claims caused the coronavirus pandemic. By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes President Trump ...

On May 5, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending federal funding for gain-of-function (GoF) research that the administration considers dangerous. GoF research helps ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Trump signed an Executive Order Monday prohibiting federal funds from being used for the controversial research known as "Gain of Function" in countries where sufficient ...

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

The Trump administration has whiffed its deadline to ban lab-made pandemic viruses by more than eight weeks, worrying ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known... President Trump issued an executive order Monday ...