Genetic modification of viruses and pathogens. Kentucky republican senator rand paul chaired the hearing. It is one hour and 45 minutes. We are going to go ahead and get started. I call this meeting of the Senate Homeland security and Government Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversights to order. I want to thank senator hassan for allowing this bipartisan hearing to occur. Welcome to each of our panelists. Thank you for joining us. The purpose of this hearing by the subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversights is to discuss, as our name implies the emerging threat posed by gain of research. We will hear from three witnesses, all of whom are extraordinarily accomplished experts in the scientific community. We are grateful for the work and we are grateful for each of you to take the time to appear with us this afternoon. Gain of function research is a controversial Scientific Research method involving the manipulation of pathogens to give them a new asp
Investigating gain of function research which involves the genetic modification of viruses and pathogens. Rand paul chaired the hearing and its an hour 45 minutes. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss the emerging threat posed by game of function research. We will hear from a panel of three witnesses who are extraordinarily accomplished experts in the scientific community. We are grateful for their work and grateful to each of you for taking the time to appear with us this afternoon. Game of function research is a Scientific Research method involving the manipulation of pathogens to give them new ability. The site despite what we learned about this method of research, this is the first congressional hearing on this subject since the pandemic began. Today we will discuss what gain of function research entails, how gain of function research is defined and whether the definition the definition is applied consistently by the department of health and Human Services p3 Co Review Committ
Function research according to the National Institutes of health. This involves the genetic modification of viruses and pathogens to increase strength and transmissibility. We hear about National Security concerns but also how gain of function research has been used to identify and mitigate potential buyers to tatians that could have resulted in pandemic potential viruses and mutations that could have resulted in pandemics. The hearing is one hour and 45 minutes. I call this meeting to order. I want to thank the senator for allowing this hearing to occur. Welcome to each of our panelists. Pink for joining us. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss the emerging threat imposed by research. We will hear from a panel of three witnesses, all of them who are accomplished in the community. We are grateful for the work into each of you for taking the time to hear from us. It is a Controversial Research method involving the manipulation of pathogens to give them a new aspect or ability such
Get started. I called this meeting of the Senate Homeland security and Government Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight to order. I want to thank senator hassan for allowing this bipartisan hearing to occur. Welcome to each of our panelists. Thank you for joining us. The purpose of this hearing by the subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight is to discuss, as our name implies, the emerging threat posed by gain of function research. We will hear from a panel of three witnesses, all of whom are extraordinarily accomplished experts in the Scientific Community. We are grateful for that work, and we are grateful to each of you for taking the time to appear here with us this afternoon. Gain of function research is a controversial Scientific Research method involving the manipulation of pathogens to give them a new aspect or ability, such as making viruses more transmissible or dangerous to humans. Despite all we have learnedre about the potential risk