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(CIDRAP News) – In the influenza literature, it's a given that ferrets are the best animal model for influenza in humans. They show similar clinical signs of disease, such as fever, coughing, and...

Moratorium will provide opportunity for institutions to assess best way of overseeing dual use research which has significant potential for public health benefits and chance for harm

A year after bird flu scientists agreed to stop research, they announced Wednesday that research should resume because it's vital to preparing for a possible pandemic.

A group of leading scientists – including a Nobel Prize winner - has proclaimed that it is “ethically and morally” wrong to alter the deadly H5N1 virus to make it more contagious for research...

In the wake of a handful of biosafety lapses at federal research facilities, the US government is temporarily halting funding for new studies aiming to give novel functions to influenza, SARS, and...

The third recent mistake in handling of pathogens is a “wake-up call,” says Centers for Disease Control head

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Department of Health and Human Services today announced that the U.S. Government is launching a deliberative process to assess the potent...

The federal government will suspend funding while it reviews the potential risks and benefits of certain experiments with three viruses: SARS, MERS and influenza.

Ralph Baric, Vineet Menachery and colleagues characterize a SARS-like coronavirus circulating in Chinese horseshoe bats to determine its potential to infect primary human airway epithelial cells,...

Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have demonstrated, in a preclinical setting, the protective effect of a candidate vaccine directed against the coronavirus that causes...

Today, the National Institutes of Health announced that it is lifting a funding pause dating back to October 2014 on gain-of-function (GOF) experiments involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses.

Um, is this a good idea?

Maximum-security biolab is part of plan to build network of BSL-4 facilities across China.

The Pirbright Institute has received $5.5 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a livestock antibody hub.

The billionaire philanthropist says the United States and the rest of the world lack a sense of urgency to counter biological threats.

Associated PressTravelers wear face masks as they walk outside of the Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. China reported Monday a sharp

Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have begun vaccinations in the first human clinical trial for a vaccine candidate to prevent MERS.

The partnering agreement will support the ongoing development of the innovative platform that can rapidly provide vaccine candidates that can target known and unknown pathogens, “Disease X.”

EXCLUSIVE: A convoy of Chinese military vehicles were caught on camera heading towards Wuhan which is dealing with a coronavirus outbreak

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD – 1/30/2020 UPDATE – 2/9/2020 – IPAK HAS CONDUCTED FURTHER, IN-DEPTH STUDIES OF THE GENOMIC AN PROTEIN SEQUENCES OF THE 2019-nCoV CORONAVIRUSES AND THEIR R…

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Innovation for Pandemics

Gates compared the risk of a pandemic disease outbreak to the challenges of preparing for a massive war.

Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping and a goodwill ambassador of the World Health Organization for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, met with Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates...