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

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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 ...

Five years after COVID-19 emerged, killing millions, costing trillions, and disrupting global life, we still don’t have a definitive answer as to the origins of the pandemic and the virus. This ...

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 ...

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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 ...