national institutes of health
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Pro-Trump NIH Goon to ‘Retire’ After Being Outed as Prolific Author of Anti-Mask, Anti-Fauci Blog Posts
One of the Trump administration’s flacks at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases secretly trashed the agency under the persona “streiff” for the right-wing blog RedState, according to a Monday report by the Daily Beast. He is now planning to “retire.”
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The US Just Lifted A Ban On Deadly Mutant Virus Research – Here’s Why
The US National Institutes of Health has lifted a ban on “gain-of-function” research on – the kind of research that requires genetically modifying viruses to make them more deadly or more contagious.
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Vials Full Of Smallpox Were Just Found In An Unapproved Lab
Well, this is disconcerting. According to an announcement today from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), vials of the smallpox virus were found in a lab in Maryland that was not only unapproved to be handling the live pathogens — it was unequipped.