NIH lifts 3-year ban on funding risky virus studies

12-19-2017 • http://www.sciencemag.org, By Jocelyn Kaiser

More than 3 years after imposing a moratorium on U.S. funding for certain studies with dangerous viruses, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, today lifted this so-called "pause" and announced a new plan for reviewing such r