Trump signed an executive order banning federal funds for ‘gain of function’ research abroad The research alters viruses to increase transmissibility or severity in the name of preparedness Scientists ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that seeks to limit federal funding for gain-of-function research, which is used to study how pathogens can become more harmful by causing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long-debated science, also called “dual-use research,” consists of experiments on viruses and pathogens and extends into ...

Stanley is an associate professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman distinguished chair in the biological sciences as well as faculty director for the Alliance for Global Health and Science at the ...

On May 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the seemingly benign title, “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research.” A more accurate title would have been, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday barring all federal funding for "dangerous" gain-of-function research in nations such as China and Iran that lack proper safety procedures. Gain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gripas Yuri/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom The Trump administration is reportedly preparing an executive order curtailing funding of ...

In 2011, two teams of scientists created an uproar after revealing they had separately mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus to spread among ferrets through the air, something it didn’t do naturally. The ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told Congress he was not “involved” in a controversial grant to the Wuhan Institute of ...

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing an executive order curtailing funding of "gain-of-function" research on pandemic pathogens, in what would seem to be an effort to prevent the next ...