Risky Virus Research Funded by NIH Faces Scrutiny, New Rules

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National Institutes of Health advisers proposed measures to enhance security of pathogen research, as House Republicans prepared to investigate the agency's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic

Republican lawmakers plan to investigate the National Institutes of Health over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemicEric Lee for The Wall Street JournalNational Institutes of Health advisers proposed measures to enhance security of pathogen research, as House Republicans prepared to investigate the agency’s funding of virus experiments and handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The NIH group recommended on Friday that federal officials expand their reviews of risky research to include any experiments altering a virus in a way that could make it so transmissible or virulent that it would pose a threat to public health or national security.

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