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NIH Announces Policy to Prohibit Gain-of-Function Research
PJ Media ^ | 07/29/2026 | Catherine Salgado

Posted on 07/29/2026 9:08:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

On the day before Anthony Fauci came to the Senate for a congressional hearing, the Trump-Bhattacharya National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new policy to prohibit gain-of-function research like the kind that led to COVID-19.

Fauci’s NIH subsidiary directed millions of dollars in funding to the Wuhan, China, lab where it is almost certain scientists manufactured and leaked the COVID-19 virus. In fact, the Biden autopen pardon for Fauci covers all the way back to 2014 because that is precisely when Fauci began funding bat coronavirus research in Wuhan. Bureaucrats and petty dictators shut down our country and disrupted our lives for the sake of a virus resulting from risky gain-of-function research. That is precisely why we don’t want any more of it.

In a July 28 press release, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya noted, “During my confirmation hearing, I pledged to the American public that I would implement strong and transparent oversight of NIH-supported research.” In fulfillment of that promise, he announced the U.S. Government Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research, which he described as a “groundbreaking government-wide policy.”

This will, he stated, be the first time ever that the federal government will have “an explicit prohibition on dangerous gain-of-function research which can significantly endanger American lives and pose substantial risk to our Nation’s security.” It marks a “paradigm shift in federal oversight by adopting a comprehensive, risk-based framework supported by strong enforcement, accountability, and transparency measures.”

Besides banning federal support for gain-of-function research, “the policy introduces enhanced review and reporting requirements for all life sciences research, including independent, top-down assessments for projects that may increase the harmful consequences of biological agents,” Bhattacharya went on.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2late; covid; gainoffunction; gof; nih

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1 posted on 07/29/2026 9:08:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Working tonight?


2 posted on 07/29/2026 9:14:16 PM PDT by chris haney (Apache)
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To: SeekAndFind

thank you for posting some good news.


3 posted on 07/29/2026 9:15:50 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell me about your outrage from Anthony Fauci taking the fifth 🙄


4 posted on 07/29/2026 9:16:02 PM PDT by chris haney (Apache)
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To: dadfly

Good news, how’s that ?


5 posted on 07/29/2026 9:19:21 PM PDT by chris haney (Apache)
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To: chris haney

are you daft?


6 posted on 07/29/2026 9:25:43 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: dadfly

No im just not a fool


7 posted on 07/29/2026 9:29:18 PM PDT by chris haney (Apache)
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To: chris haney

Tell me how it’s good news


8 posted on 07/29/2026 9:30:45 PM PDT by chris haney (Apache)
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To: chris haney

nah. you’re daft.


9 posted on 07/29/2026 9:33:30 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: SeekAndFind

They will work around the prohibition somehow.


10 posted on 07/29/2026 10:00:18 PM PDT by Jonty30 (When I go to the kitchen to find food, I get disappointed because all I find are ingredients.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Great, just in time to prevent a worldwide pandemic that might kill millions and destroy its economy.

I guess this also means that up until today they WERE funding it, business as usual.

Great. MAGA.

No biggie, it's just bioweapons development that now can go on forever, independently, by the Chinese.

Thanks Fauci, Trump, UNC, and lots of others.

11 posted on 07/30/2026 2:57:20 AM PDT by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The NIH and the WHO should both be defunded, disassembled, and new organizations created with a lot of oversight. Gain of Function research can result in much worse stuff than covid. It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.


12 posted on 07/30/2026 3:39:43 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Jonty30
They will work around the prohibition somehow.

That’s why Fauci was funding Ecohealth Alliance’s work in Wuhan. Obama admin tightened regs on this line of research, so the bureaucrat outsourced the work to China to escape the oversight.

EcoHealth Alliance used federal grant money to fund bat coronavirus work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This work involved testing chimeric viruses on mice modified with human ACE2 receptors. The U.S. government later debarred the group over reporting failures regarding these experiments.

The penalties were severe - not really. Just barred from seeking grants for five years. Better luck next time!

HHS formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance and its former president, Dr. Peter Daszak, barring them from receiving federal contracts and grants for five years.

13 posted on 07/30/2026 4:41:45 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: SeekAndFind

If Biden can go bak to 2014....why just not say from the moment of his birth. It would seem that back dating would invalidate the so called prdon.


14 posted on 07/30/2026 4:57:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

Not doing gain of function research on potential bioweapons is akin to throwing all of our nuclear weapons away and letting our enemies keep theirs. Isn’t going to happen. Most of it goes on a Fort Detrick. I would certainly limit research that goes on in other countries, though.


15 posted on 07/30/2026 5:09:48 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: SeekAndFind

They better work on broadening the definition to cover all the prior deception first.

AND put in place ironclad criminal & financial penalties for violations.


16 posted on 07/30/2026 5:21:14 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Omnivore-Dan; SeekAndFind

>The NIH and the WHO should both be defunded, disassembled, and new organizations created with a lot of oversight

Damn, you had it right up to the the last ‘and’

In no way, shape, matter nor form would {X} *NOT* grow into what exists today...or worse (& you actually said “oversight”? BWAHAHAhahaha). Thus, it should never exist to begin.


17 posted on 07/30/2026 5:24:46 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: dadfly

They will find a work around. The government always finds a way to be able to conduct their evil plans and insidious lies on us.

Take Fauci. He is a person that is exactly what being above the law is.

They called it a “preemptive pardon”. AKA “above the law”.

This man is a demon and walks free.


18 posted on 07/30/2026 5:40:47 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SeekAndFind

LOCKING THE BARN DOORS WHEN THE HORSE IS ALREADY GONE


19 posted on 07/30/2026 7:33:02 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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