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.

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Monday to ban all federal funding of risky gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries without proper oversight of the ...

An executive order suspends the use of federal funds for certain experiments on pathogens with pandemic potential. Critics say low-risk science could be affected too. US President Donald Trump has ...

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, ...

PROGRAMMING ALERT: Watch Dr. Siegel discuss this topic and more on "Fox & Friends" and "America's Newsroom" on Tuesday, May 6. Gain-of-function research has many purposes, including gauging the ...