A doctor working for the U.S. government visited in 2017 the China-based virus research facility where the pathogen that causes COVID-19 may have leaked from and sounded the alarm on safety issues at the lab earlier than previously reported, according to documents obtained by The Epoch Times. Dr. Ping Chen, who worked for the National […]
All U.S. federal funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the Chinese lab suspected to be the origin of COVID-19, has been suspended, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). On Wednesday, the HHS sent a letter (pdf) to WIV Director General Dr. Yanyi Wang, informing her that no federal […]
U.S. regulators have approved the nation’s first lab-grown meat for sale—chicken products grown from animal cells. The U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) on Wednesday gave the OK for two California companies to sell their chicken products to restaurants, and eventually, supermarkets. Startups Upside Foods, formerly known as Memphis Meats, and Good Meat, a subsidiary of Eat Just Inc., […]
He Jiankui is a Chinese scientist. Five years ago, he created the world’s first gene-edited babies—twin girls named Lulu and Nana. Accused of “illegal medical practices,” he was taken into custody and jailed for three years over fears surrounding the ethics of “designer babies” and the unknowns surrounding its long-term safety. Now he’s getting back […]
Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told lawmakers on Wednesday that U.S. tax dollars funded risky gain-of-function research at a Chinese virus lab at the heart of the COVID-19 origin controversy. Redfield made the remark while responding to questions during a March 8 session of the House Select […]
The currently available evidence supports the theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory, former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield told members of Congress on March 8. “From the earliest days of the pandemic, my view was both theories about the origin of COVID-19 needed to be aggressively and […]
A group of 43 national security experts published an open letter on Jan. 11 criticizing news organizations and scientific publications that dismissed the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic might have been the result of a lab leak. The letter is addressed “To the editors, authors, and contributors to major scientific, medical, and journalistic publications worldwide.” […]
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a subgrant to the laboratory in China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019. U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance was granted $3.7 million, starting in 2014, to study bat-related coronaviruses. It conveyed some of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), located in China. […]
Four thousand beagles will be transferred from a Virginia breeding and research facility to be put up for adoption after it was cited for animal welfare violations. A judge in July approved a plan to transfer the 4,000 beagles housed at Envigo’s facility in Cumberland, Virginia, to shelters. “The Humane Society of the United States worked with […]
Russian forces have destroyed a laboratory at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and seized highly radioactive samples, according to Ukrainian officials. The Ukrainian state agency responsible for the Chernobyl exclusion zone said in a statement Tuesday that Russian forces “looted and destroyed” the lab, which was opened in 2015 with support from the European Union […]
An updated assessment from U.S. intelligence agencies on COVID-19 origins concludes that both theories—lab leak and natural jump from animal to human—remain “plausible,” with a lack of evidence driven by Chinese authorities’ refusal to cooperate with the probe precluding a definitive judgment either way. The report (pdf), released by the Office of the U.S. Director of […]
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory’s contracted operator in Tennessee from terminating or placing on unpaid leave its workers who are exempted from a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Days after six employees filed a lawsuit against the University of Tennessee-Battelle (UT-Battelle), District Judge Charles Atchley in Knoxville issued a temporary […]
China is battling a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak in its eastern Fujian Province. A large, makeshift nucleic acid testing facility opened Tuesday in the province’s Quanzhou city, one of the hardest-hit areas there.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose ailments might provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. “I would like to see the medical records of the three people who are reported to […]
