Nancy Forman, a nurse, was initially concerned about the hazardous biological materials that would be studied at the New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory at Tufts’ Cummings School of Veterinary ...

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM University of Hawaii President M.R.C. Greenwood and Board of Regents Chairman Eric Martinson listened at a meeting Wednesday that discussed a biosafety lab. “I am ...

Public discussion continued this week about the university’s proposal to build a high-security biocontainment laboratory, with the Davis City Council, its Natural Resources Commission and the ...

From biosafety levels to aseptic techniques, keeping a lab safe is about more than rules—it’s about protecting people, science, and the environment. The latest CDC BMBL 6th edition updates harmonize ...

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 February, UC plans to submit an application for federal funding that would support construction of a national, high-security laboratory at UC Davis where infectious diseases could be safely ...

From classrooms to high-containment research facilities, biosafety practices keep scientists, students, and communities safe. The latest CDC and ASM guidelines emphasize risk assessment, training, and ...

Training is required for all laboratory workers (faculty, staff, students and visiting scientists) at The University of Nevada, Reno. The exact training required for a particular person will depend on ...

With COVID-19 cases still on the rise, Stanford’s newly expanded biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) lab is providing the University’s researchers with a safe place to study SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible ...

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 ...

Biocontainment labs across the Asia-Pacific region all too often fail to live up to the term. An inspection of dozens of labs has found that nearly one-third of the biosafety hoods intended to protect ...