After all the controversy over the past few years about gain-of-function research on viruses, especially the Covid-19 virus, I thought this kind of work was on hold, at least in the U.S. Indeed, the ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya launched a new bi-monthly “Scientific Freedom Lecture” series with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers did conduct an experiment using a coronavirus that they found had 100% lethality in mice. However, the ...

Mouse experiments at Boston University have spotlighted an ambiguous U.S. policy for research on potentially dangerous pathogens. A researcher works in the high containment lab at the National ...

LONDON -- Scientists are embarking on a series of experiments with the bird flu virus ravaging Asian poultry to see how dangerous it would be if it adapted to humans, the chief influenza expert at the ...