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Trump Administration Misses Its Own Deadline for Banning Gain-of-Function Research

Trump Administration Misses Its Own Deadline for Banning Gain-of-Function Research

Update: 2025-11-01
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The Trump administration has whiffed its deadline to ban lab-made pandemic viruses by more than eight weeks, worrying biosafety hawks and undercutting assurances from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that the policy remains on track.

A May executive order required a handful of multi-agency leaders to oversee producing new federal policies on gain-of-function (GOF) research by Sept. 2.
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Trump Administration Misses Its Own Deadline for Banning Gain-of-Function Research

Trump Administration Misses Its Own Deadline for Banning Gain-of-Function Research

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