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NIH Removes Language on ‘Gain-of-Function’ From Website Amid Criticism Over Funding Chinese Research

By Epoch Times ——--October 26, 2021

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The National Institutes of Health altered a key portion of its website last week around the time it disclosed to Congress that experiments it funded in China met the definition of gain-of-function. The federal agency, known as the NIH, had a detailed explanation of gain-of-function research on its site, noting that the term refers to any research that modifies a biological agent in a way that confers new or enhanced activity to that agent.-- More...

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