There is a fair chance that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in China, where experiments to make bat viruses more infectious to humans were being conducted at inadequate biosecurity levels.

Risky virus experiments that scientists think could have started the COVID-19 pandemic were initially solicited from a research arm of the Department of War, according to congressional testimony from ...

WASHINGTON — A War Department program requested proposals for so-called “gain of function” experiments that could make ...

At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Anthony Fauci is likely to face questions from Sen. Rand Paul related to the origins of the ...

UCSD researchers have spent years building trust in communities of unhoused people who use drugs in San Diego and across the border in Tijuana. Since spring, some 10% of their research participants ...

Tulane researchers discovered a unique bat antibody system that could reshape understanding of immunity and virus tolerance ...

Researchers found that vesper bats use two separate sets of genes to build antibodies ‪—‬ a rare evolutionary quirk that may give them different ways to fight infection.

Despite short-term costs to economic development, long-term human prosperity is not possible in an ecologically unstable planet. Efforts to preserve and stabilise ecosystems should function as public ...

It is a mystery that has puzzled scientists for years. How can the world's only winged mammals carry viruses that cause ...

Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) discovered an endangered bat species that had not been captured in the state since 2015. Indiana bats have been federally ...

It is a mystery that has puzzled scientists for years. How can the world's only winged mammals carry viruses that cause ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAHAM COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — Biologists captured five reproductive female Indiana bats in North Carolina's Graham County earlier ...