The woman, a resident of southeast China, has since recovered.

In the wake of a handful of biosafety lapses at federal research facilities, the US government is temporarily halting funding for new studies aiming to give novel functions to influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who accidentally leaked H5N1 into a benign strain of avian influenza may have been rushing off to a meeting.

A group of scientists has called on the European Commission to evaluate the risks and benefits of research that could make deadly viruses more transmissible.

Genetic diversity helped avian influenza A viruses make the leap from birds to humans, researchers report.

Crowdsourcing biomedical research; bird flu contagion?; zebrafish shed light on inherited muscle disorder; the economics of the Human Genome Project; the epigenetics of pair bonding

How the study of human social interactions is helping researchers understand the spread of diseases like influenza and HIV

The mosquito’s role in malaria virulence; the value of grant review; Europe must embrace GM crops; why roaches avoid sugary bait

The brain’s role in aging; tracking disease; understanding the new flu virus; no autism-Lyme link; one drug’s journey from bench to bedside

What scientists are learning about the zoonotic flu virus that has infected more than 100 people in China since February

Two people have died and five have fallen ill from the H7N9 virus.

After a year-long voluntary moratorium to discuss regulations and safety measures, scientists are set to resume controversial H5N1 research.

The head of a US infectious disease funding body urges researchers to continue the voluntary cessation of research on avian influenza.

The NIH agrees with the government advisory board’s recommendation to publish both controversial bird flu studies in full.

Science adviser John Holdren speaks out about how the Presidential Administration is handling the controversial research that rendered avian flu transmissible between ferrets.

The creation of H5N1 bird flu strains that are transmissible between mammals has thrown the scientific community into a heated debate about whether such research should be allowed and how it should be regulated.

A new policy will require federal agencies to perform a careful review of research involving 15 pathogens and toxins that could be used for bioterrorism, including H5N1.

Biosecurity agency will give controversial H5N1 bird flu research another look-over in light of new data and clarification.