An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that could shed light on the origins of Covid. By Sharon Lerner IN AN ARTICLE published Thursday, economist...
Emails show that NIH officials allowed EcoHealth Alliance to craft oversight language governing its own gain-of-function research. By Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH allowed a U.S. nonprofit it funds to police its own...
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. By Sharon Lerner, Maia Hibbett A GRANT PROPOSAL written by the U.S.-based nonprofit the EcoHealth...
More than 900 pages of materials related to U.S.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept. By Sharon Lerner, Mara Hvistendahl NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS provide details of U.S.-funded research on several types of...