US Senate passes amendment to ban gain-of-function research in China

The US Senate has passed an amendment by Republican Senator Rand Paul to permanently ban the National Institutes of Health and any other federal agency from funding gain-of-function research in China. “We don’t know whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan or evolved naturally,” Senator Paul said in a statement. “While many still deny funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan … the passage of my amendment ensures that this never happens in the future.”