Source:
- December 19, 2017. “NIH Lifts Funding Pause on Gain-of-Function Research.” National Institutes of Health (NIH).
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research.
National Institutes of Health. - February 2018. Talha Burki. “Ban on Gain-of-Function Studies Ends.” The Lancet. Infectious Diseases 18 (2): 148–49.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30006-9.
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Related:
- November 1, 2012. Anthony S. Fauci. “Research on Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus: The Way Forward.” MBio 3 (5): e00359-12.
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00359-12.
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“Scientists working in this field might say—as indeed I have said—that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky.” - May 2016. “RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE EVALUATION AND OVERSIGHT OF PROPOSED GAIN-OFFUNCTION RESEARCH.” National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity.
https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/NSABB_Final_Report_Recommendations_Evaluation_Oversight_Proposed_Gain_of_Function_Research.pdf.
National Institutes of Health, PDF.