In Greek mythology, the Chimaera was a fire-breathing monster, a horrifying mishmash of lion, goat and snake that laid waste to the countryside. In 2015, virologists led by Ralph Baric at the ...

Recently, there has been extensive debate about the benefits and risks of dual use research of concern (DURC), particularly with the use of gain-of-function (GOF) experiments in potentially pandemic ...

Spoiler summary: When the capacitance (in femtofarads) of your discontinuity is greater than 10 × risetime (in ps), the discontinuity will affect the signal. Remember: before you start using rules of ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. The research, ...

Gain-of-function research (GOFR) refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility, virulence, immunogenicity, and host tropism by applying selective pressure to a ...

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