Congress is considering a massive overhaul of the nation’s scientific enterprise, much of it in the name of ensuring competitiveness with China and other nations that are pouring billions into ...

Gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has widely been suspected as a source of the pandemic. "What they were doing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was taking ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve heard a lot about gain-of-function research, and some of its risks, particularly regarding the possible creation of dangerous pathogens. But there’s a lot ...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the ...

Former CDC director Robert Redfield told Newsmax in an interview Wednesday why he supports President Trump's executive order preventing the U.S. from funding viral "gain-of-function" research at labs ...

Gain-of-function research rarely garners the attention of the masses, but the pandemic thrust the controversial research into the spotlight and some have used it to point to the Wuhan Institute of ...

In a party-line vote last evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Stanford professor and medical researcher Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The confirmation of ...

Anterior view of the face of a Myotis lucifugus (Little Brown Bat), Trenton, New Jersey, 1966. Image courtesy CDC. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Why have scientists spent years ...

A letter written by Dr. Lawrence Tabak has been cited as proof that the National Institutes of Health funded “gain of function” research in Wuhan, China, despite denials from U.S. health officials.

In Greek mythology, the Chimaera was a fire-breathing monster, a horrifying mishmash of lion, goat and snake that laid waste to the countryside. In 2015, virologists led by Ralph Baric at the ...