Friday’s unanimous vote of federal advisors was to approve a list of proposals to strengthen government oversight for pathogen research.
The group of experts from biosecurity and infectious disease, together with a few others, voted for minor changes to the proposed proposals. But some of the scientists who attended the public meeting balked at language that they said could accidentally hinder relatively low-risk gain-of-function research, which manipulates pathogens in order to study a virus’s origins with the aim of developing speedy treatments.
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