New research is rewriting the origin story of the virus that triggered the deadly COVID pandemic. Challenging the idea that ...

The COVID-19 virus traveled a similar amount of distance in about the same amount of time as the 2002 SARS virus.

A new study from an international team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic spread naturally by ...

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya celebrated President Trump's executive order preventing the U.S.

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

President Donald Trump is continuing to promote the unsupported “lab leak” COVID-19 theory, using it now to rationalize a ...

By going after gain-of-function research in “countries of concern,” the president and his administration are engaging in ...

His executive order targeted the elimination of what is called gain-of-function, which studies how viruses become more ...

Titled “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” the executive order directs the White House’s Director of ...

A new shortcut can help engineers design leak-proof magnetic confinement systems for fusion reactors 10 times as fast as the gold standard method, without sacrificing accuracy. While several other big ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. Here's what it means.

President Trump signed an executive order banning federal funding for ‘gain of function’ research. Scientists are split on whether these virus experiments are essential or too risky to continue.