A criminal investigation is underway at one of Brazil’s most prestigious research universities after 709 vials containing ...

Someone walked out of a laboratory in Belém, Brazil, with 709 vials of dangerous viruses - including samples of Eastern ...

Before the pandemic, there was only a small group of researchers dedicated to studying coronaviruses. Now though, scientists around the world are turning their focus to the virus called SARS-CoV-2.

With COVID-19 cases still on the rise, Stanford’s newly expanded biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) lab is providing the University’s researchers with a safe place to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible ...

The missing samples — reported to include chikungunya and dengue viruses — have been recovered, but questions linger over ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States in 2020, the American research community experienced a sudden spike in funding. Universities, pharmaceutical companies, and state and federal ...

Since 2001, biological risks—from terror attacks involving anthrax letters to outbreaks of new and re-emerging infectious diseases like SARS, Ebola, H5N1 avian ...

There’s so much scientists still don’t know about the novel coronavirus: basic stuff, like how exactly it invades a host’s healthy cells, the molecular interactions that enable it to spread through ...