Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. A world-first study will infect young, healthy people with coronavirus in a controlled environment to learn more about its characteristics, UK ...

Clinician administering virus through the nose, as part of UK COVID-19 Human Challenge study. Human challenge studies involve deliberate human infection ‘challenge’ of a small number of low-risk ...

An advocacy group is pushing for more ‘human challenge’ trials to spur vaccine discovery. Following COVID-19 and Zika studies, hepatitis C could be next. Keller Scholl got out of quarantine 13 days ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, Christopher Chiu and other researchers wondered: Should they inject healthy people with the virus that caused the ...

Backed by a £33.6 million UK government investment, the first-of-its-kind study for this virus will involve establishing the smallest amount of virus needed to cause infection, which will give doctors ...

Scientists have discovered novel immune responses that help explain how some individuals avoid getting COVID-19. Using single-cell sequencing, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, ...

SINGAPORE — Five young volunteers here have been deliberately exposed to the Covid-19 virus in the country’s first human ...

Scientists have made new advances in the pursuit for a COVID-19 vaccine. Biotech company Moderna says its experimental vaccine creates antibodies and is generally safe and well-tolerated. It’s the ...