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

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- The number of high-containment labs around the world conducting potentially risky scientific research is surging, despite a lack of global agreement on how to make sure they're safe.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research lab at Fort Detrick is restructuring after an investigation last year found a larger breakdown of trust in leadership ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday lifted a moratorium on transfers of inactivated materials from its clinical tuberculosis ...

The Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee elected Ray Hunter as its new chairman Tuesday evening. Hunter retired from the Department of Energy in 1998 as deputy director of its Office of ...