NIH committee green-lighted Wuhan coronavirus experiments despite concerns, emails show

NIH committee green-lighted Wuhan coronavirus experiments despite concerns, emails show

Bethesda, MD: NIH funds the majority of biomedical research in USA In mid-2016, as a federal moratorium still loomed over risky biomedical research, an ad hoc review committee of National Institutes of Health scientists stood as the first line of defense, tasked with determining whether U.S.-funded projects were pursuing science deemed too dangerous to fund. When a proposal to perform experiments on high-risk coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute…