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 ...

Viruses known as 'jumbo' phages are seen as a potential tool against deadly bacterial infections. But scientists must first decipher the extraordinary makeup of these mysterious viruses. Researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts society at risk of an infectious disease outbreak for questionable gain. Some research on emerging viruses can ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The term “gain of function” is often taken to refer to research with viruses that puts ...