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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => COVID-19 => Topic started by: evan_au on 25/04/2020 22:39:44

Title: Is it time to ban "Gain of Function" testing?
Post by: evan_au on 25/04/2020 22:39:44
Allegations/rumors have surfaced about scientists doing "gain of function" testing on bat viruses in Wuhan.
- Some of the results from Chinese & US scientists have appeared in peer-reviewed journals (so it is claimed)

Are we in a serious-enough situation that there is a general international willingness to ban "gain of function" testing?
- Or is this something which is too hard to verify?
- Or will the process of defining what is banned be used by the crazies as a recipe to do precisely what is banned?
        - And just create more plagues that spread around the globe?
- Or is this something which we really need to keep doing, to protect ourselves from new viruses?

See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK285579/

Title: Re: Is it time to ban "Gain of Function" testing?
Post by: evan_au on 26/04/2020 10:27:31
A quick search in Google Scholar turned up this paper, with authors from Wuhan and North Carolina...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/