id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-335432-9aszklx3 Duprex, W. Paul Falling down the Rabbit Hole: aTRIP Toward Lexiconic Precision in the “Gain-of-Function” Debate 2014-12-12 .txt text/plain 2438 122 50 (B) Dual-use research of concern (DURC) is a small subset of DUR involving life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can reasonably be anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied, posing a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security. (D) Although spanning all of microbiological research, much of the DURC debate has focused on virology, where selection processes of circulating and synthetically generated agents have been used to enhance transmission. For some, gain of function causes the most concern, although even for the influenza transmission studies, it is simplistic to focus on only one phenotype/ one function as a range or on infectivity changed during selection of mammal-adapted avian influenza viruses. Risks and benefits of gain-of-function experiments with pathogens of pandemic potential, such as influenza virus: a call for a science-based discussion ./cache/cord-335432-9aszklx3.txt ./txt/cord-335432-9aszklx3.txt