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 ...

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 ...

While Americans, at the federal government's urging, rely on duct tape and sheets of plastic to counter a potential biological attack, vaccines and drugs that might better protect them could go ...

Africa can't outsource its deadliest threatsSovereignty in global health is ultimately about being able to act without hesitation when lives areon the line. That ability does not come from statements ...

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