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US lifts ban on risky pathogen research

19-Dec-2017

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The US government has lifted its controversial ban on funding experiments that make certain pathogens more deadly or transmissible.

The goal is to standardize “a rigorous process that we really want to be sure we’re doing right”, NIH director Francis Collins told reporters.

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Dr. Francis Collins

American physician-geneticist & the director of National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 2009

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Medical research agency that supports scientific studies

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