Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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The term gain of function (GOF) refers to any genetic mutation in an organism that confers a new or enhanced ability. Such changes often occur naturally. Additionally, scientists can induce such changes to organisms through experimentation. GOF research covers a broad area of scientific inquiry. One area of GOF resear…
In the United States, oversight of the life sciences, in particular laboratory biosafety and biosecurity, is exercised pursuant to a mixture of federal law, federal guidance, and self-governance, dependent on the types of experiments and biological agents being used. There currently is no overarching federal law that…
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