A fiery exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, during a congressional hearing on Tuesday is bringing attention once again to a type of ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. The research, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long-debated science, also called “dual-use research,” consists of experiments on viruses and pathogens and extends into ...

Scientists have long debated the merits and risks of tinkering with viruses and bacteria, which the president claims caused the coronavirus pandemic. By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes President Trump ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that seeks to limit federal funding for gain-of-function research, which is used to study how pathogens can become more harmful by causing ...

President Trump on Monday moved to cut off federal funding for so-called gain-of-function research and implied such work could have been responsible for triggering the COVID-19 pandemic. Why it ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday updating guidance for researchers and government agencies with the aim of stopping federal funding for foreign research that generates new ...

The National Institutes of Health will terminate all funding for grants involving risky gain-of-function research and give researchers until the end of June to say whether their grants comply with ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning funding on research that could lead to another pandemic. The president signed the order Monday afternoon, which, as the White House said, “will ...