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Gain-of-function research is more than just tweaking risky viruses – it's a routine and essential tool in all biology research

Gain-of-function experiments in the lab can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. KTSDesign/Science Photo Library via Getty Images As ...

A Virus From 5 Million Years Ago Is Still Building Every Human Ever Born

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...
Science Daily

Key functions of therapeutically promising jumbo viruses

Viruses known as 'jumbo' phages are seen as a potential tool against deadly bacterial infections. But scientists must first decipher the extraordinary makeup of these mysterious viruses. Researchers ...
The Hill

An economist’s perspective on ‘gain-of-function’ virus research

There has recently been a great deal of focus on whether COVID-19 was created in a lab, or whether it crossed over to humans from an animal host. While this is an important question to resolve, there ...
The Conversation

‘Gain of function’ research can create experimental viruses. In light of COVID, it should be more strictly regulated – or banned

Colin D. Butler is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Doctors for the Environment, Australia. The United Nations Environment Programme recently published a scientific review that looks ...
Forbes

AI Or Gain-Of-Function Research: Which Is More Dangerous?

French engineer-virologist Thomas Mollet looks at 24 well plates adherent cells monolayer infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus at the Biosafety level 3 laboratory (BSL3) of the Valneva SE Group ...
Houston Chronicle

Gain-of-function research is more than just tweaking risky viruses – it’s a routine and essential tool in all biology research

The term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts society at risk of an infectious disease outbreak for questionable gain. Some research on emerging viruses can ...
SFGate

Gain-of-function research is more than just tweaking risky viruses – it’s a routine and essential tool in all biology 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 ...