U.S. halts "gain-of-function" research

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Trump freezes funding for research blamed for pandemic

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The order aims to stop scientists from conducting “gain-of-function” research with federal funding.

Republicans have speculated since the beginning of the pandemic that SARS-CoV-2 originated from research projects on bat coronaviruses funded by the National Institutes of Health and conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China .

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