The city of Boston plans to toughen up laboratory safety protocols after revelations that three Boston University (BU) researchers were accidentally infected with a lethal strain of tularemia they ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On Thursday, biosecurity researchers released the first ...

Infectious diseases don’t respect borders. Because of the global economy and unprecedented mobility, everyone on the planet is vulnerable to potentially devastating infectious diseases that may have ...

Containment cabinets in a BSL-3 laboratory, prior to the construction of modern BSL-4 labs. At first glance, the lab looks like any other. The refrigerators, centrifuges, and computers are all ...

Klare X. Allen stands in the middle of the gravel parking lot that may one day house Boston University’s “biocontainment” laboratory, pointing out landmarks. Her arm sweeps in a semicircle, past the ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its evaluation of the security measures deployed at the nation’s five biosafety level (BSL) 4 laboratories. Two of the labs ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Ahmedabad, Jan 15 (IANS) Gujarat is set to significantly strengthen its biosecurity infrastructure with the construction of its first Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory, a ...

Several years ago, I was contracted to perform an evaluation study for an existing biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) biocontainment laboratory on the West Coast. The lab was actively performing research on ...

Natalie Salat, a reporter for Legion, a magazine about Canada’s military history, came to Winnipeg to write about the facility after the visitors from China had come and gone. Their attendance was ...

While Americans, at the federal government's urging, rely on duct tape and sheets of plastic to counter a potential biological attack, vaccines and drugs that might better protect them could go ...

Ebola virus research is conducted in maximum containment Biosafety Level 4, or BSL-4, laboratories, where investigators wear positive-pressure suits and breathe filtered air as they work. Here, ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Tuesday, laid the foundation stone for Gujarat's first ultra-modern Bio-Safety Level-4 (BSL-4) bio-containment laboratory and an Animal Bio-Safety facility in ...