Nestled in the hilly outskirts of the city at the heart of the coronavirus crisis, a Chinese high-security biosafety laboratory is now the subject of US claims it may be the cradle of the pandemic.

A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. [AP Photo/Ng Han Guan] In ...

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in ...

A 2023 declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said there was no sign that the Wuhan lab ever had the virus or one closely related to it before the outbreak.

CLAIM: President Joe Biden restored taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. THE FACTS: Social media users are falsely claiming the Biden administration is bankrolling the Wuhan Institute ...

Donald Trump has made a bold move by issuing an executive order to terminate all federal funding for risky virus research in countries deemed hostile or lacking proper regulation, five years ...

The White House budget calls for slashing $17 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), citing the agency's failure to properly monitor risky gain-of-function research it funded ...