David Gillum, Senior Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Chief Safety Officer, Arizona State University, Rebecca Moritz, Biosafety Director and Responsible Official, Colorado State ...

French engineer-virologist Thomas Mollet looks at 24 well plates adherent cells monolayer infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus at the Biosafety level 3 laboratory (BSL3) of the Valneva SE Group ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve heard a lot about gain-of-function research, and some of its risks, particularly regarding the possible creation of dangerous pathogens. But there’s a lot ...

Congress is considering a massive overhaul of the nation’s scientific enterprise, much of it in the name of ensuring competitiveness with China and other nations that are pouring billions into ...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Clinical support technician Douglas Condie extracts viruses from swab samples so that the genetic structure of a virus can be analysed and identified in the ...

Gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has widely been suspected as a source of the pandemic. "What they were doing at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was taking ...

It was the first thought to cross the mind of computational biologist Steven Salzberg after reading about a recent Boston University study that combined strains of the virus that causes COVID-19, ...

In January 2020, an obscure government panel met at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, Maryland, to discuss a branch of virology known as "gain of function." The goal of such research is to take ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order on gain-of-function research, questions linger on exactly how the order will be implemented and about its potential impacts on the study of ...

In Greek mythology, the Chimaera was a fire-breathing monster, a horrifying mishmash of lion, goat and snake that laid waste to the countryside. In 2015, virologists led by Ralph Baric at the ...

President Donald Trump is continuing to promote the unsupported “lab leak” COVID-19 theory, using it now to rationalize a new executive order designed to prohibit federal funding of certain research ...