To better understand what causes a pandemic, pathogens may be altered during research in ways that affect how they spread and cause disease. However, these alterations could make them more ...

The Pentagon’s internal watchdog admitted this week it doesn’t know how much research involving the enhancement of possible pandemic pathogens — also known as gain-of-function research — is being ...

The University of California Office of the President invites comments on revisions to the Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential UC Presidential Policy. This ...

The U.S. Government has established a new policy for the oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP) that will take effect on May 6, 2025.

Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) is life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that ...

The White House released new policy guidance Monday to aid federal agencies when deciding whether to fund research that could potentially increase a pathogen’s virulence or transmissibility. According ...

On May 6, 2025, the U.S. government will implement a new policy addressing Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens of Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP). This policy supersedes the 2012 DURC ...

With many experts believing or entertaining the unproven possibility that COVID-19 had its origins in a laboratory, the pandemic re-ignited a debate over how the government should oversee federally ...