“Gain-of-function studies ‘have done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics — yet they risked creating an accidental pandemic'” says Prof. Marc Lipsitch, CCDD Director. Read the article in Nature.
US government lifts ban on risky pathogen research
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