Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller
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The White House has unveiled tighter rules for research on potentially dangerous microbes and toxins, in an effort to stave off laboratory accidents that could unleash a pandemic.
The new policy, published Monday evening, arrives after years of deliberations by an expert panel and a charged public debate over whether Covid arose from an animal market or a laboratory in China.
A number of researchers worried that the government had been too lax about lab safety in the past, with some even calling for the creation of an independent agency to make...
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