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.

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order prohibiting federal funds from being used for the controversial research known as “Gain of Function” in countries where sufficient oversight is not ...

President Donald Trump could sign a sweeping executive order banning gain-of-function research — research that makes viruses more dangerous in the lab — as soon as May 6, according to a source who has ...

A disagreement between Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci has put $600,000 of U.S. grant money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology back into the spotlight, while making “gain-of-function” ...

In the broadest sense, gain-of-function work involves genetically altering an organism so that it can do something it couldn’t do before. (Getty Images) President Donald Trump is continuing to promote ...

President Trump on Monday moved to cut off federal funding for so-called gain-of-function research and implied such work could have been responsible for triggering the COVID-19 pandemic. Why it ...