A coronavirus researcher at UNC who's attracted national attention is now being investigated by Republican state lawmakers.

Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

Ralph Baric's science combating COVID-19 has been celebrated. But his work is also a target of people who believe the virus ...

Interest in what caused the coronavirus pandemic has many political dimensions today, with President Trump saying genetic ...

U.S. Right to Know first requested public records on professor Ralph Baric’s coronavirus research from the University in July ...

Novo Nordisk and Grifols together paid for every Johnston County public high school to offer BioWork, a one-semester, ...

Although the world has largely moved on from Covid-19, a lot of trust was destroyed including – unfortunately and worryingly ...

Trump hopes to slash the NIH budget by 38%, or almost $18bn; cut NSF budget by $4.7bn, more than 50%, scrap nearly half of ...

Ralph Baric, seen here at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health laboratory in September 2021, has over four decades of researching coronaviruses built the foundation for the rapid response and ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ronny Jackson is gearing up another investigation of the origins of COVID-19 — and wants to bring Dr. Anthony Fauci and a US-based coronavirus researcher credited with ...

Humble as it may seem, this lab and its principal investigator, Ralph Baric, are central to the story of COVID-19—as well as the distrust of science that has grown in its wake. As federal ...

In two opinion pieces published by the Times—one co-authored by virologists W. Ian Lipkin and Ralph Baric, the other by sociologist Zeynep Tufekci—the paper denigrates and casts doubt upon ...