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Global Pandemic - Gain-of-Function Research of Concern Topic of In Focus White Paper from CRS
April 07, 2025
WASHINGTON, April 7 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF12021) on March 10, 2025, by science and technology policy specialist Todd Kuiken.

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Global Pandemics: Gain-of-Function Research of Concern

Gain-of-function (GOF) research is a broad area of scientific inquiry that examines how and why an organism gains a new property or an existing property is altered. The terms gain of function and loss of funct . . .

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