Gain of function experiments
...are still being done.
https://youtu.be/6RYOkp0xAyg?si= ZxCgb5qdQZZ2s2TI The putative advantages of getting one animal virus to affect different animals - particularly human ones - have never been convincing to me. |
I would agree that GoF for anything which can infect humans, or important livestock (ex. cows), or important biosphere organisms (ex bees) should be done in extremely tightly controlled conditions. With weeks or months -long work shifts and strict quarantine for those coming off shift.
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I don't have any sense of how much benefit vs. the risk, ie does it just make the research easier (cheaper & faster), or are there some things which simply cannot be observed at normal levels of function? Faster research results *might* be a good excuse for GoF, if you're in a situation where you're trying to get ahead of something which just reared it's ugly head in the wet markets. |
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