The amendment by GOP Sen. Rand Paul was added to the Endless Frontier Act, a broader technology investment bill. It bans the NIH from funding "gain-of-function" research, which is research that alters an organism or disease to make it more transmissible, or pathogenic。

保罗提出的附加项（amendment）是停止资助中共的若干项目，附加在“无尽前线法案（Endless Frontier Act）”。这个法案禁止所有对“活得功能”的资助——就是被川普推翻的奥巴马-白登暂停令。