Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research is the summary of a two-day public symposium on Gain of Function (GOF) research. Convened in December 2014 by the National Research Council ...

Stanley is an associate professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman distinguished chair in the biological sciences as well as faculty director for the Alliance for Global Health and Science at the ...

Gain-of-function experiments can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. But they're also used for many other areas of study within biology.

Gain-of-function research became especially controversial and politically polarized during the COVID-19 pandemic. One theory states the SARS-CoV-2 virus spilled out of a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts ...