Lawmakers are demanding answers after it was revealed the USDA is supplying China with money for experiments that see scientists make bird flu viruses more contagious to humans.
He Jiankui was sentenced to three years in prison in 2019 after he announced he had created the first genome-edited babies. Now, Dr He has revealed he has opened three new labs.
MATT RIDLEY: The WHO has a terrible track record in managing epidemics, not least in its response to Covid-19, where it made a series of bad mistakes and did China's bidding.
MATT RIDLEY: The WHO has a terrible track record in managing epidemics, not least in its response to Covid-19, where it made a series of bad mistakes and did China's bidding.
Pregnant women should strip caffeine from their diets after a new study in rats suggested that the compound increases the risk that the child will have autism.
Rishi Sunak compared the UK's stance favourably with that of friendly nations as he swiped that many had not ditched Huawei from comms networks.
In a highly unusual move, London and Washington publicly identified China as the source of a wave of cyber attacks directed both at politicians and institutions.
Human-to-animal transmission has received 'little attention', researchers from UCL said. But 'humans are as much a source as a sink' for viral health crises.
One measure floated by the UN agency, the group worries, opens the door for member states to be made to comply with advice issued during future pandemics.
Chinese scientist Dr Xiangguo Qiu (pictured), who was fired from a Canadian lab for sending viruses to China, is thought to have worked with a key virologist at a Wuhan lab.
Scientists have revealed the most polluted cities in the world where inhabitants are most at risk of inhaling toxic particles.
Addressing MPs sitting on the Health and Social Care Committee, he argued there was a '20 or 30 per cent chance' another pandemic would occur within 20 years.
'Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control', by leading author Professor Dali Yang was released on Friday and explores the pandemic in forensic detail.
In tests, China's 'T-Flight' train has reached a record speed of 387mph on a short test track - even faster than Japan's MLX01 Maglev, the world's fastest train in operation (361mph).
Pandemic-era rules - illustrated in tonight's 9pm episode of ITV's Breathtaking - stopped medics in some trusts from performing CPR without adequate PPE.
Scientists in Beijing - who are linked to the Chinese military - cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice that had been 'humanized.'
Records show EcoHealth Alliance will continue to be funded to capture and test bats, pangolins and other animals for viruses in countries including Myanmar and Thailand until August 2027.
British zoologist Dr Peter Daszak, a central and controversial figure in the debate about Covid's origins, has revealed he's found a close relative of the virus living in bats found in Thai caves.
IAN BIRRELL: It is more than four years since the World Health Organisation was tipped off about a mysterious new disease that had emerged in Wuhan.
A cache of documents, obtained by Freedom of Information campaigners, reveal the extent to which the work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was supported by America.
A newly-uncovered trove of documents detailing plans to create a Covid-like virus in China months before the pandemic make the 'lab leak almost certain', experts say.
