Our luck has run out. The worst pandemic in a century has killed over 3.7 million people globally. In the United States, almost 600,000 have lost their lives to COVID-19. Societies around the world ...

Since its publication by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1984, Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) has ...

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 ...

The NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acids (NIH Guidelines) provide details regarding "the practices for constructing and handling: (i) recombinant nucleic acid ...

Biosafety cabinets protect laboratory personnel and the environment from harmful contaminants, requiring accreditation ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory device to reduce exposure to biofluids during small molecule analysis. The pretreatment device combines a sealing technique with a direct injection technique.

This article originally appeared on Undark. In 2004, an activist named Edward Hammond fired up his fax machine and sent out letters to 390 institutional biosafety committees across the country. His ...

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 ...

Two airlocked steel doors away from Texas Biomedical Research Institute's biosafety level-4 lab, where only deadly infectious diseases with no treatments or vaccines available are studied, two ...

REEDLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Reedley city leaders have adopted a temporary ban on future biomedical labs in an effort to prevent private companies from operating without oversight. During a meeting ...