March 26 (UPI) --The U.S. State Department Wednesday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Biological Weapons Convention, an agreement implemented in 1975 to stop the development and use of ...

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine passes its third week, the U.S. is carefully watching for any possible decision from Moscow on the use of chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine. Washington has ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning after a "deadly biological weapon" virus has killed several people ...

Experts from over 80 countries of the Global South and representatives of regional and international organisations will take part in the conference on December 1-2 at the Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, New ...

United Nations — The U.N.'s 15-nation Security Council voted down on Wednesday a proposal by Russia to create a commission to investigate Moscow's unsubstantiated claims of a joint U.S.-Ukrainian ...

On Aug. 17, the Department of Defense released its updated Biodefense Posture Review designed to achieve “a resilient total force that deters the use of bioweapons, rapidly responds to natural ...

OpenAI has announced a $15 million seed investment in Red Queen Bio, a startup focused on using AI to block the creation of biological weapons. This move is part of OpenAI's broader strategy to invest ...

The threat from biological weapons use by nations or terrorists is entering an era of potentially heightened risk, but the dimensions of the danger are not yet clear, a panel of experts said Friday.

Saying this is a bio-weapon does not imply that I am convinced this was man made in a lab, it may be, it may be a natural mutation that originated in bats, I don't know. What I'm saying is that much ...

WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden's terrorist network has been pursuing a sophisticated biological weapons research program and is seeking chemical weapons, the Pentagon has told Congress. Other terrorist ...