A Google search for "Frio Cave" makes the Uvalde County, Texas destination look like a tourists' dream. One quickly learns that the cave is home to tens of millions of Mexican free-tailed bats, and ...

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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, ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order on gain-of-function research, questions linger on exactly how the order will be implemented and about its potential impacts on the study of ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve heard a lot about gain-of-function research, and some of its risks, particularly regarding the possible creation of dangerous pathogens. But there’s a lot ...

Scientists with the American Society for Microbiology, or ASM, called for standardized practices, greater public transparency and more in a new report on gain-of-function research, studies where ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that an NIAID spokesperson told STAT in late May 2023 that there had been no formal proposal to do gain-of-function research on mpox and ...