After all the controversy over the past few years about gain-of-function research on viruses, especially the Covid-19 virus, I thought this kind of work was on hold, at least in the U.S. Indeed, the ...

Seventy years can feel like a long enough stretch for an ecological experiment to settle into history, but the story of rabbits and a deliberately released virus keeps refusing to stay still. What ...

Scientists in China, experimenting with a coronavirus closely related to the virus that causes COVID-19, found that it had a 100 percent kill rate in a small mouse study, according to the researchers’ ...

LONDON -- Scientists are embarking on a series of experiments with the bird flu virus ravaging Asian poultry to see how dangerous it would be if it adapted to humans, the chief influenza expert at the ...

Could a future vaccine against cancer be made better by an immune-boosting virus? Very likely, say Canadian scientists, who've proven its effectiveness in experiments on mice. Led by Université de ...

Why has the SARS-CoV-2 virus ravaged the global human population, but many other animal viruses haven't? Using nematode worms as a model, researchers at Penn State conducted a set of experiments to ...

Confirming the dangers of drinking raw cow's milk when the H5N1 avian flu virus is circulating in U.S. dairy herds, researchers found that mice fed the milk quickly got ill. "Our data indicate that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers did conduct an experiment using a coronavirus that they found had 100% lethality in mice. However, the ...

Researchers outside the United States used frontier AI models to plan experiments involving highly pathogenic bird flu, chikungunya and other biological agents with potential weapons applications, ...

A scientist with close ties to China and the U.S. government is now saying that risky experiments he proposed—which some experts believe could have led to the creation of SARS-CoV-2—may have been done ...