The murky world of gain-of-function research

The murky world of gain-of-function research Gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been widely suspected as a source of the pandemic. "What they were doing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was taking dangerous, scary viruses and making them scarier," Jamie Metzl of the Atlantic Council told Gadget Clock. In basic terms, the point of gain-of-function research is to make a virus more dangerous. Scientists argue that, with this research, they could be prepared to handle it if one day the virus were to mutate naturally. However, critics argue that if viruses evolve in that way,…