Titled “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” the executive order directs the White House’s Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to work with federal agencies to issue guidance that will end federal funding of all gain-of-function research in the U.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that bans federal funding for gain-of-function research seen as dangerous, Fox News reported, citing a White House statement. The order bans federal funding towards such research in China,

President Trump signed an executive order Monday banning all federal funding towards “dangerous" gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries, and blocking all federal funding for foreign research that could cause another pandemic.