President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office, surrounded by top health officials, vowing a crackdown on “dangerous gain-of-function research” on viruses and pathogens that ...

The National Institutes of Health is in the process of suspending funding for 40 experiments because of fears that the research might be dangerous, according to a draft memo.

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