Scientists have long debated the merits and risks of tinkering with viruses and bacteria, which the president claims caused the coronavirus pandemic. By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes President Trump ...

President Trump issued an executive order Monday restricting federal funding for research that involves a controversial field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. The research, ...

Section 1. Purpose. Dangerous gain-of-function research on biological agents and pathogens has the potential to significantly endanger the lives of American citizens. If left unrestricted, its effects ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

The clitoris is the sensitive area located on the top of your vulva. Touching this area of your body can make you feel sexually aroused and lead to climax, or an orgasm. On the outside, it looks like ...

This repository contains authors' implementation of PPLNs: Parametric Piecewise Linear Networks for Event-Based Temporal Modeling and Beyond. Our implementation uses the PyTorch library. We warmly ...

Cognitive functioning affects how people think and their ability to remember things. Impairment in this area of brain health may cause a decline in how someone responds to their environment mentally ...

Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a decade, ...

At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of ...

The internet is good for plenty of things, but perhaps its most underrated value is its ability to turn an absolute nothingburger of a question into a worldwide search for truth. Case in point: the ...