Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, 73, has abruptly resigned from his post as acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A study on bat genomes, involving Texas Tech University, discovered genetic adaptations that help bats resist viral ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has shown that bats can tolerate coronaviruses and other viruses without ...

Researchers have found that bats' strong immune systems allow them to harbor deadly viruses like Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, and ...

President Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab ...

Five years removed from the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists around the world are still studying its effects and, more importantly, ways those effects can be mitigated in the future.

A surprising new study suggests that COVID-19 may not have originated from bats or pangolins, but rather from a rare fusion ...

with the coronavirus in question likely originating from a bat. It wouldn’t be surprising, given that many viruses have been linked to bats, including the Ebola, Marburg, Nipah and Hendra ...

Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes picked up immune adaptations that can quell viral ...

An image that is spreading widely online claims that Moderna had created its COVID-19 vaccine two years before the pandemic ...

Dr Peter Daszak, the former president of EcoHealth Alliance, worked with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to import and manipulate bat coronaviruses ahead of the global outbreak.