President Trump plans to sign an executive order to prohibit federal funding for risky gain-of-function research in countries like China and Iran, aiming to improve oversight. This decision emerges over five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, which US intelligence suggests may have stemmed from a lab accident. The order will revoke funds for all current and future gain-of-function research and entails a pause on infectious pathogens research while new policies are developed by the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Trump criticizes the previous administration's handling of potentially hazardous biological experiments.
President Trump will sign an executive order to ban federal funding of risky gain-of-function research in China and other countries without oversight.
This order represents a significant shift in US policy on biological research, aiming to prevent future lab-related incidents.
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