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 ...

In compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Standard, all employees who are considered at risk of occupational exposure to BBP shall be ...

A nuclear watchdog group filed a federal lawsuit on Monday (March 10) to suspend work at a Biosafety Level 3 lab at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which opened to little fanfare earlier ...

When a high containment laboratory handling lethal pathogens stumbles, even briefly, it exposes how much of the country’s ...

Back in May, the White House issued an executive order to strengthen biological research safety and quickly drew the attention of scientists and the biosafety community. The push ...

Boston’s Public Health Commission has decided to regulate biological-research laboratories working with dangerous, infectious microbes, such as those in Boston University’s planned facility for ...

Foes of a high-security laboratory at Boston University where researchers will study a host of deadly microbes took a new tack on Thursday in their efforts to kill the project, which is already under ...

The launch of a long-awaited biosafety laboratory at the University of Wyoming this month will enable scientists to investigate deadly biological agents, including the bacteria that cause brucellosis.