National Institute of Health (NIH). The U.S. government contributed to gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a recently released report alleged. Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and chief medical advisor to President Biden, previously denied such research was ever funded by the…
A researcher working on developing a vaccine in Brazil. Photo: Douglas Magno/AFP/Getty Images Hopes for a return to normal life after the coronavirus hinge on the development of a vaccine. But there’s no guarantee, experts say, that a fully effective COVID-19 vaccine is possible. That may seem counterintuitive. So many brutal viral diseases have been conquered by vaccination…
Scientists around the world have been racing to develop treatments, cures and a vaccine for COVID-19, and are getting closer by the day. Jacob Glanville – one of the stars of Netflix documentary Pandemic – runs Distributed Bio, which has been working to find an antibody therapy. On Monday he tweeted that a development was imminent. “I’m…