Thursday, December 21, 2017

US to lift restrictions on making viruses deadlier and stronger

The United States National Institute of Health (NIH) announced on Tuesday that it will soon be ending a three-year moratorium on funding research projects that aim to make pathogens more powerful than they are naturally. The restrictions were put in place during the Obama Administration while the NIH created a more comprehensive system of risk-benefit analysis for the research. Now that such a system has been developed, the NIH is moving forward with its plans to develop more dangerous forms of deadly...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/us-to-lift-restrictions-on-making-viruses-deadlier-and-stronger
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