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 ...

The biosafety Level 4 laboratory is something new for the Hamilton facility. Researchers working in these highly controlled environments are required to go through an elaborate process that includes ...

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 ...

In Manhattan, Kan., the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), an animal disease research facility, has finished construction. Replacing the 68-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center, NBAF ...

On May 25, 2023, merely six weeks before the Wuhan Biosafety lab lost its NIH funding amid the controversy of possible lab leaks and connection with COVID-19, the U.S. proudly opened the doors of the ...

Galveston academics faced a formidable task in the late 1990s when they first sought to build an ultrasecure lab to study the world's most infectious diseases. How best, they wondered, to convince ...

So Ellen Berlin would like to bring up the topics of misinformation and ‘alarmist propaganda’ (‘Opponents to bio lab misinformed,’ Oct. 20, pg. 6). But let’s take a look at what she really has to say.

Bioscrypt Inc., a leading provider of identity verification technology, today announced that the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) has selected Bioscrypt's V-Pass and V-Station biometric ...

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 ...

The University of Washington has withdrawn a plan to build a biocontainment laboratory with federal help because it cannot raise its $35-million share of the project’s cost. The National Institutes of ...

Ariel photo of the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, taken in June. A $27.5 million biosafety lab at this facility will be dedicated next month. A high-tech $27.5 million ...