bad idea to muck around with Mother Nature like Fauci paid the ChiCom lab to do.
Indeed.
Gain-of-function (GOF) research involves experimentation that aims or is expected to (and/or, perhaps, actually does) increase the transmissibility and/or virulence of pathogens
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar...f-function (GOF,and/or virulence of pathogens.