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  • US Grant to Wuhan Lab on Bat-Based Coronaviruses Didn’t Get Review, NIH Says

    04/06/2021 6:12:52 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 19 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | 5 Apr, 2021 | Andrew Kerr
    An oversight board created to scrutinize research that would enhance highly dangerous pathogens did not review a National Institutes of Health grant that funded a lab in Wuhan, China, to genetically modify bat-based coronaviruses. Experts say the NIH grant describes scientists as conducting gain-of-function research, a risky area of study that, in this case, made SARS-like viruses even more contagious. Federal funding for gain-of-function research was suspended temporarily in 2014 due to widespread scientific concerns it risked leaking supercharged viruses into the human population. Federal funding for gain-of-function research was resumed in late 2017 after the Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control...