Gain-of-function research became especially controversial and politically polarized during the COVID-19 pandemic. One theory states the SARS-CoV-2 virus spilled out of a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, ...

On May 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the seemingly benign title, “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research.” A more accurate title would have been, ...

The source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, remains elusive. With "low confidence," some federal agencies favor the theory that it originated in and leaked from a Chinese laboratory ...

Unraveling mechanisms underlying post-acute SARS-CoV-2 sequelae (long COVID) and finding therapeutic solutions require a full understanding of the causative role of SARS-CoV-2 persistence and/or ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. The research, ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known... President Trump issued an executive order Monday ...