A novel AI-driven method helps scientists stay ahead of viral evolution by engineering synthetic spike proteins that ...

Scientists trace how the virus behind COVID-19 traveled over 2,000 kilometers from bats in Western China to Wuhan.

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

The virus likely reached humans not via bat migration but through the wildlife trade—contradicting hypotheses that it may ...

Researchers behind a new study have concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic was sparked by wildlife trade in China, similar to the circumstances that led to the SARS outbreak in 2002. The results ...

Effective vaccines dramatically changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing illness, reducing disease severity, ...

Researchers from the University of São Paulo in Brazil have discovered that silver nanoparticles produced by a fungus called ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous, accumulate in the environment and are difficult to break down. They are known as "forever chemicals". PFAS can compromise the immune system ...

The new study shows that the virus’s path across China to Wuhan resembles that of the earlier SARS epidemic that started in 2002, in terms of time, distance, and route, they report in the journal Cell ...

The president signed a bill pausing funding for gain-of-function virus research. Former President Barack Obama did the same ...

A landmark study by scientists at the University of Oxford, has unveiled crucial insights into the way that COVID-19 vaccines mitigate severe illness in those who have been vaccinated.

HHS implemented a pause on research of deadly infectious diseases at one of the nation's most highly secure research labs, ...