A study in the journal Science presents compelling new evidence that neurons in the brain's memory center, the hippocampus, ...

The NIH is terminating grants involving dangerous gain-of-function research, and grantees have until the end of June to notify the agency whether they are in compliance.

Recent achievement research suggests that executive function (EF), a set of regulatory processes that control both thought and action necessary for goal-directed behavior, is related to typical and ...

The first Trump administration lifted that ban in 2017 and instituted a new procedure to review possibly dangerous research. The debate over gain of function research sharpened during the pandemic.

Fox News reported that gain-of-function research involves changing a virus to make it more infectious to humans. This is what happened at the Wuhan Lab before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Trump was correct to issue an executive order on Monday that will block federal funding for gain-of-function research in China, Iran, and elsewhere, including the U.S.

But gain-of-function research became especially controversial and politically polarized during the COVID-19 pandemic. One theory for how the pandemic started says that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order looking to limit federal funding for gain-of-function research that involves altering pathogens, suggesting the efforts could have been responsible ...

President Trump signs an executive order Monday banning all federal funding towards “dangerous" gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries, and blocking all federal funding for ...

“Gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens caused the COVID-19 pandemic, killing 20 million and costing $25 trillion,” said Richard Ebright, a Rutgers University microbiologist ...