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 ...

Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

New lab experiments with milk from cows infected by H5N1 influenza, known as bird flu, confirm that it is infectious, especially when left raw, or untreated, and potentially even when flash ...

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 ...

House Republicans are pressing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for answers after the agency funded research experiments they say could result in a "supercharged" monkeypox virus. In a letter ...

Elon Musk on Thursday responded to a social media post on X claiming that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was preparing for new experiments on a bat virus strikingly similar to Covid-19, identified as ...

Working in a laboratory in Paris, scientists gave a close relative of the Covid virus the chance to evolve to be more like its cousin. By Carl Zimmer In mid-2020, a team of scientists catching bats in ...