Several accidents this year in federal high-containment labs heightened concerns that such gain-of-function (GOF) studies could result in a dangerous virus escaping the lab and touching off a pandemic. The ban is much broader, however: It covers about …

But the idea of converting a power-mimicking robot into a deadly viral pandemic is inspired, and it gives this story the oomph it needs. Its a zombie story, but one with enough scope to suit a team as powerful as the Justice League. The threat of the …

In 2011, the state of Texas invested $50 million to establish a National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing at A&M to generate biotechnology and biopharmaceutical jobs and improve the country's response to pandemic diseases or bioterror threats.

According to county records, flu complications killed 70 people during the 2013-2014 period, 12 more than were reported during the 2009-2010 year when the H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic filled emergency rooms and hospital beds across the nation. Wooten …

The band resurrected a few months back for the Governors Ball in New York and also played Reading, Leeds and Sasquatch. A rarities album was also released in 2009. Strangers To Ourselves will be released on February 27 in Australia and March 3 in the …

SANTA ANA — A 63-year-old man was behind bars Wednesday on charges of fatally stabbing a transgender woman in Santa Ana in 1989. Doug Gutridge is being held on $1 million bail. Gutridge's arrest on Dec. 9 is the first for a newly formed Orange County …

One of the group's first demonstration projects is a simple search engine that combs through the DNA letters of thousands of human genomes stored at nine locations, including Google's server farms and the University of Leicester, in the U.K. According …

LAS CRUCES, N.M. >> A New Mexico State University professor and a graduate student are part of an international collaboration among more than 200 researchers in sequencing the DNA of all major groups of birds. It is the first study of its kind …

The agency has started performing an in-house microcircuit anti-counterfeit initiative dubbed DNA marking. The capability will validate the authenticity of purchased microcircuits while increasing their reliability throughout the supply chain. The new …

Getting all that DNA into the nucleus might evoke images of tangled cords of christmas lights. But in reality, the strands are arranged in surprisingly organized loops at specific locations, researchers have found. They call it “DNA origami” for the …