A North Carolina appeals court handed the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a significant legal victory on ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told Megyn Kelly during an interview this week that there is an ongoing investigation to prove the role U.S.-funded research at the Wuhan Institute of ...

Emily Kopp is an investigative reporter with Daily Caller News Foundation. DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The U.S. Agency for International Development shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in ...

In just a few years scientist Ralph Baric went from being heralded as a global leader in public-health focused coronavirus research, to a target of unproven accusations that he helped start a pandemic ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. NC lawmakers requested UNC release records linked to virologist Ralph Baric. The inquiry centers on Baric’s virus research and ...

In 2011, two teams of scientists created an uproar after revealing they had separately mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus to spread among ferrets through the air, something it didn’t do naturally. The ...

The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins comes in many forms. Here is Donald Trump’s: A scientist in Wuhan walked outside to have lunch, maybe with a girlfriend or something. “That’s how it leaked ...

The initial spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 might have been accelerated by the wildlife trade, similar to what happened with the SARS outbreak in 2002, according to a study by UC San Diego ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade. By Carl Zimmer In the ...