Gain-of-Function research on influenza, MERS funding pause lifted
by News Desk from Outbreak News Today on (#3B76Q)
On Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health announced that it is lifting a funding pause dating back to October 2014 on gain-of-function (GOF) experiments involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses. NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. said in a message on the website: GOF research is important in helping us identify, understand, and develop strategies and effective countermeasures ["]
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