The Coronavirus pandemic has prompted a global surge in laboratories that handle dangerous viruses — despite concerns Covid may have been the result of the risky experiments. More than 40 facilities ...

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 ...

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 ...

How the times have changed. A little over 17 years ago, in an auditorium at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Texas, a motley crew of dignitaries gathered to celebrate the ...

THE number of biolabs handling the world’s most dangerous viruses has boomed in the last two years as experts warn of a “deadly arms race” to build high risk facilities. The locations of the labs ...

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 ...

Govt considers formalising Vande Mataram protocols, Gujarat builds a high-security lab for virus response, and a sanitation ...

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 ...

Work on a regional-level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, the only such facility to come up in Kerala, is progressing at the Government Medical College, Kozhikode. It will have biosafety ...