Although definitions of gain-of-function differ, investigative reports leave no question researchers manipulated ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday, ...

"The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team based on field visits to relevant laboratories in Wuhan," foreign ministry spokeswoman ...

DRASTIC, a group of internet users with no expertise in virology, has been pushing their hypothesis of a research accident in ...

From Professor Anton van der Merwe, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK ...

The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, though it has no conclusive evidence.

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission.

On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...

Asked about the CIA statement this week, China’s foreign ministry said the ... coronaviruses deadlier for research purposes. The lab leak idea has spawned various sub-theories.

Not a speck of evidence has emerged showing that the COVID virus leaked from a Chinese lab. So why does a just-released CIA statement claim that it did? Blame politics.