Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has ...

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

Meanwhile, there are indications that the NIH is continuing to fund risky virological research. Gain-of-function critics who were optimistic that this research would finally be put back in the box are ...

The award went to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries around what’s known as peripheral ...

The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support ...

Can the public trust health recommendations from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)? Be cautious. HHS and its ...

The new initiative was announced in tandem with the Trump administration's disputed claims about Tylenol's links to autism ...

Congress is now tasked with finalizing the budget ahead of the new fiscal year, which begins October 1. In July, the Senate rejected the White House’s proposed cuts and instead advanced a modest ...

The National Institutes of Health has recently granted $740K to the University of North Florida to investigate a hallmark of ...