The Peter Kim Lab was recently awarded $18 million by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness to create a vaccine to protect ...

The Energy Department said it reached the conclusion with "low confidence." The news that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic "most likely" was ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) clearly indicates that “Rousettus aegyptiacus bats are considered natural hosts for Marburg virus.” (Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images) ...

A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Benjamin ...

This exclusive article is adapted from former USA TODAY investigative reporter Alison Young’s forthcoming book "Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk," which will be released ...

The avian flu virus isolated from a hospitalized teenager in Vancouver has mutations in key areas that could help the virus spread more easily in humans, scientists say. There is no indication that ...

Quebec scientists have succeeded in isolating infectious particles of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from air samples collected from hospital rooms of COVID-19 patients and kept frozen for more than a year, a ...

Researchers have isolated a giant virus, which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates ...

Though there's no "smoking gun," experts called by congressional Republicans at the first national-level hearing into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic say the United States should continue ...

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary again promoted a conspiracy theory about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, accusing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Wednesday ...