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 ...

On May 5, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 14292, “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research,” which effectively ends federal funding for “dangerous gain-of-function ...

Section 1. Purpose. Dangerous gain-of-function research on biological agents and pathogens has the potential to significantly endanger the lives of American citizens. If left unrestricted, its effects ...

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 ...

In a party-line vote last evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Stanford professor and medical researcher Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The confirmation of ...

Most plagues that have troubled humanity came from animals. More than a decade ago, scientists demonstrated it was feasible to take natural viruses and potentially make them far worse—easier to spread ...

Stanley is an associate professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman distinguished chair in the biological sciences as well as faculty director for the Alliance for Global Health and Science at the ...

President Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab experimentation designed to genetically manipulate biological agents to make ...

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, ...