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 ...

Over the course of its second season, the podcast has covered contentious topics ranging from gain-of-function research to ...

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

The event will discuss current thinking on biomarkers, clinical outcome scales, and other endpoints to contextualize data that was recently presented at the International Congress of Parkinson’s ...

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