New research is rewriting the origin story of the virus that triggered the deadly COVID pandemic. Challenging the idea that ...

According to the paper, the precursor to SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats in western China or Northern Laos several years before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan.

Days after the US and China again took shots at each other over the origin of COVID-19, researchers have published a genetic ...

The COVID-19 virus traveled a similar amount of distance in about the same amount of time as the 2002 SARS virus.

A new study from an international team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic spread naturally by ...

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

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

His executive order targeted the elimination of what is called gain-of-function, which studies how viruses become more ...

Typically, gain-of-function research aims to breed germs that are more viral or transmissible than previous strains in order ...

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

President Trump signed an executive order banning federal funding for ‘gain of function’ research. Scientists are split on ...