The field of biotechnology has great potential to improve the health and lives of our community and the world. Progress in this field has led to great strides in health care, but there are inherent ...

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

On a sunny September morning in 2011, at a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta, virologist Ron Fouchier made an announcement that shook the scientific world. His lab, he said, had taken ...

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 ...

Covid might not have come out of a medical research lab, but it raises some urgent questions about how those facilities operate. Credit...Illustration by Rachel Levit Ruiz Supported by By Jon Gertner ...

When a high containment laboratory handling lethal pathogens stumbles, even briefly, it exposes how much of the country’s safety rests on procedures most people never see. The recent scrutiny of a U.S ...

Kathmandu, May 10 -- The National Public Laboratory (NPHL) has set up a high-containment unit, a facility designed to prevent the risk of highly contagious viruses spilling over into communities. The ...

In view of the complexity of both containment labs and the human and agricultural health challenges containment labs aim to ameliorate, a detailed examination of specific situations often helps in ...