High-security labs, like this one at Penn State, are at the center of a debate over research that alters viruses to make them more dangerous.

The usually harmless Human Pegivirus has been found in brain samples from Parkinson’s patients. Researchers say this is the first time it’s been found in brain tissue.

The lab leak hypothesis posits that the virus was modified (possibly through gain of function maneuvers), or even created, in the Wuhan Institute for Virology (WIV) and somehow escaped the laboratory.

Hundreds of deadly virus samples are missing from a lab in Australia, the Queensland Government announced on Monday. Queensland Health has launched an investigation into the “major historical ...

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.

The lab leak theory argues that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID, escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, China, and then spread around the world.

Over 300 live samples of deadly viruses—including hantavirus, lyssavirus and Hendra virus—went unaccounted for after a freezer broke.

In a truly unsettling turn of events, Australia is facing a major public health crisis after 323 vials containing deadly viruses mysteriously disappeared from a laboratory in Queensland. Among the ...

A researcher tweeted what he called a “fun fact” about the Marburg Virus that’s currently spreading and threatening lives in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea.

Researchers have isolated the virus that causes COVID-19, its genome has been sequenced and detailed images are publicly available.

New book reveals lax oversight and efforts to avoid reporting an accident involving a controversial flu virus at a University of Wisconsin lab.