The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases within the NIH put the brakes on research at its high containment lab (known as the Integrated Research Facility) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, ...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research on coronaviruses and other harmful pathogens has increased in laboratories across the world — and not just any labs. Work of this sort often requires ...

As many of the previous sessions dealt mainly with BSL-3 labs, this session focused on some of the special issues associated with BSL-4 facilities (see Table 8-1 for a list of operational BSL-4 ...

(Bloomberg) -- The number of high-containment labs around the world conducting potentially risky scientific research is surging, despite a lack of global agreement on how to make sure they're safe.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research lab at Fort Detrick is restructuring after an investigation last year found a larger breakdown of trust in leadership ...

This session will start by reminding the participants that lab practices are intended to keep the worker safe, buildings are designed to keep the community safe, and that there are often many ways of ...

In the world of containment facility design, where safety protocols and engineering performance standards ultimately trump all other programmatic considerations, government agencies and research ...

A £1.7m laboratory building which will investigate infectious diseases has opened at the University of Warwick – helping to tackle some of the most globally important human diseases and prepare for ...

Dr. J. Craig Reed is the newest member of the Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee. Reed is president and owner of Inspirion Biosciences, a consulting firm that specializes in risk management ...

The CDC reports 6,617 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the U.S., as of Aug. 3. At least six of those cases are in Idaho, according to state and local public health agencies. Idaho’s first case was ...

Members of the Containment Laboratory Community Advisory Committee elected new officers Tuesday. Beth Willis, co-founder of Frederick Citizens for Bio-lab Safety, was re-elected chairwoman.