Supporters of the research say it could identify the next pandemic before it happens, but others have raised concerns that the risks outweigh the benefits.
Gain-of-function research rarely garners the attention of the masses, but the pandemic thrust the controversial research into the spotlight and some have used it to point to the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a potential source of the origin of COVID-19.
It's a controversial research technique because of the possibility of a lab leak, allowing a mutated pathogen to infect local or global populations. Not all labs are qualified to conduct gain-of-function research and those that are have a certain biosafety level that's intended to put in place layers of safeguards to help prevent leaks, although accidents can occur.
Gain-of-function research involves giving a pathogen a new"ability" and is controversial because if a pathogen is mutated to become more infectious or deadly and then escapes from a lab, it could infect local and global populations. Above, a photo taken through a multi-glazed security window shows a scientist of the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research wears a special protective suit while working in a high-security laboratory in Braunschweig, northern Germany, on May 8, 2020.
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