The newly released information has reignited questions that first surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic about the extent of ...

Biosafety hawks were initially optimistic that the incoming second Trump administration would at last place binding constraints on so-called "dangerous gain-of-function" research, in which pathogens ...

On May 5, 2025, the Executive Order on Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research was issued. This paused the implementation of a revised Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with ...

On May 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order with the seemingly benign title, “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research.” A more accurate title would have been, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office surrounded by his top health officials, vowing a ...

Robert Emmet Moffit, PhD., is a Senior Research Fellow in Health and Welfare Policy at the Heritage Foundation, and coeditor of Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and ...