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The Academia Sinica campus.

A lab assistant involved in COVID-19 research in Taiwan exposed 110 people after becoming infected at work

By Matt Field | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

A health care worker.

The origin of COVID-19: Evidence piles up, but the jury’s still out

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

The grave risk of lab-created potentially pandemic pathogens

By Lynn Klotz | Biosecurity

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?

By Nicholas Wade | Biosecurity, Investigative Reporting