Philosophers have long wrestled with what to do about the onlookers and profiteers surrounding those who have done terrible things.

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

Sociologist Talcott Parsons observed that social institutions have two functions: the written “manifest” function and the unwritten “latent” function. In many cases, the latent function is as ...

With the rapid development of machine learning, Deep Neural Network (DNN) exhibits superior performance in solving complex problems like computer vision and natural language processing compared with ...

In 2011, two teams of scientists created an uproar after revealing they had separately mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus to spread among ferrets through the air, something it didn’t do naturally. The ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Monday to ban all federal funding of risky gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries without proper oversight of the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday banning all federal funding for "dangerous" gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries and blocking all federal funding for ...

Section 1. Purpose. Dangerous gain-of-function research on biological agents and pathogens has the potential to significantly endanger the lives of American citizens. If left unrestricted, its effects ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...