Viruses
‘Zombie’ viruses have been revived from Siberian permafrost. Could they infect...
Researchers have isolated viable microbes from melting permafrost after tens of thousands of years. But don't worry; they infect only amoebas.
By Joanna Thompson *
Dec...
DARPA Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scientists Claim
By Hannah Osborne
10/4/18
The U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been accused of trying to create a new class...
“Capitalism is a disease hotspot”
Yaak Pabst interviews Monthly Review Press author Rob Wallace about the coronavirus pandemic
by Rob Wallace
Mar 12, 2020
Originally published: Marx21
Editors note: The present version contains...
A biotech firm made a smallpox-like virus on purpose. Nobody seems...
By Gregory D. Koblentz
February 21, 2020
In 2017, the virologist David Evans made headlines when he used synthetic biology to recreate the extinct horsepox virus,...
US lifts ban on funding creation of lethal viruses
By Elisabeth Eaves
“Gain-of-function research” sounds so innocuous. Who wouldn’t want to gain some function? Opinions differ, though, when the “function” in question is lethality....