Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gain-of-function experiments in the lab can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were ...

The evidence is becoming ever more clear that the Covid-19 virus leaked out of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. This pandemic horror is focusing attention on gain-of-function research, whereby ...

Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Boston University's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have made significant progress in understanding the Nipah virus, a deadly bat-borne infection ...

Researchers have profiled the molecular structure and features of a key part of the deadly Nipah virus. Experiments in cells showe how changes in the viral polymerase -- a protein involved in viral ...

A congressional watchdog agency has determined that the oversight carried out by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for research involving highly transmissible viruses such as the ...

The United Nations Environment Programme recently published a scientific review that looks at environmental threats and risks in light of the COVID pandemic. It analyses links between human infectious ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have uncovered the structure and function of the first FDA-approved treatment for Zaire ebolavirus (Ebola virus). Inmazeb (REGN-EB3), developed by ...