It’s the first documented outbreak of bird flu in captive mink in the U.S., and an advocacy group is raising concerns about Utah’s response.

By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University

“We should be strengthening our investment in the NIH, not dismantling it,” writes Reed Jobs.

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Under a new partnership, the Defense Department would play a larger role in biodefense and pandemic preparedness. Democrats warned it could allow a Pentagon cash grab.

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit...

The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.

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Several baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina were infected with rabies, and authorities are asking anyone who had contact with the animals to reach out to health officials about potent...

The measles-related deaths announced Tuesday of two Lancaster County residents were the first in Pennsylvania in 35 years and led to a spat between Josh Shapiro and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A natural experiment comparing recipients of the live attenuated versus recombinant herpes zoster vaccines found that the recombinant vaccine was associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular ev...

MUSICC has opened recruitment for its second human challenge study, COVHIC003.

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

NIH's Program Update 3 eliminates Independent Clinical Trial Required K awards — 573 active K23s affected. The clinician-scientist pipeline breaks quietly…

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

Residents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages.

Genetic variation in viruses is well known to arise from polymerase-driven nucleotide misincorporation. However, insertion and deletion (indel) mutations that occur at lower, largely unknown, frequenc...

University of Maryland School of Medicine seeks a scientist-leader to serve as Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology