Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

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A preprint from a research team based mainly at the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories described how the team had created a new hybrid Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a report on its investigation into an incident that occurred in December 2014 at the agency’s Ebola ...

Virus-built silver appears much more effective against bacteria than commercial silver. In A Nutshell Lab safety tests showed no harm to human kidney cells at concentrations 10 times higher than ...

Army Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, revealed in prepared Senate testimony this week that some U.S. intelligence agencies — not identified by name — believe the ...

Frozen vials with “smallpox” labels found at a Pennsylvania lab contain the virus used in the vaccine for the virus and not the virus that causes the disease, public health officials said Thursday.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven Salzberg is a Professor who writes about science, good and bad The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has ...

A biosecurity breach has come to light in Queensland, Australia, where 323 vials containing live viruses, including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus, and Hantavirus, have gone missing. The breach, which ...