US spies concluded that Covid could have leaked from a lab just three months into the pandemic, new documents reveal. The US ...

Hyderabad: The recent death of a girl from bird flu in Andhra Pradesh has put health officials on high alert in Telangana, ...

Public health leaders looked to UNC-Chapel Hill virologist Ralph Baric to end the pandemic. Their critics blamed it on him.

The companies that sell synthesized DNA to scientists need to screen their customers, lest dangerous sequences for pathogens ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying bat-borne diseases, tracing their origins, and analyzing their potential ...

A recent study published in Science Translational Medicine involving scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute ...

The 50th anniversary of a landmark biosafety conference is an opportunity to ensure its spirit lives on in today’s scientists.

A Petri dish in a lab. A genome spliced. A pathogen engineered. The spark of the next pandemic may not lie in nature – but in ...

Two American virologists with former ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) argue that the lab’s recent research poses ...