Ethical and Philosophical Considerations for Gain-of-Function Policy: The Importance of Alternate Experiments

The Department of Health and Human Services Framework for Guiding Funding Decisions about Proposed Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) contains a series of principles for governing the funding and conduct of gain-of-function (GOF) research resulting in the creation of PPPs. In this article, I address one of these principles, governing the replacement of GOF research with alternate experiments. I argue that the principle fails to address the way that different experiments can promote the same values as those promoted by GOF research resulting in PPPs. I then address some objections to this claim, and provide policy recommendations moving forward.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

• Publication date

  2018-02-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fbioe.2018.00011PMID 29473036PMCID 5809449
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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