There are 59 biosafety level 4 labs (BSL-4) in the world, but only a few scored high on safety. A new report revealed only a quarter of countries with these labs have high biosecurity scores. The labs ...
On May 25, 2023, merely six weeks before the Wuhan Biosafety lab lost its NIH funding amid the controversy of possible lab leaks and connection with COVID-19, the U.S. proudly opened the doors of the ...
In Manhattan, Kan., the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), an animal disease research facility, has finished construction. Replacing the 68-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center, NBAF ...
Ebola virus research is conducted in maximum containment Biosafety Level 4, or BSL-4, laboratories, where investigators wear positive-pressure suits and breathe filtered air as they work. Here, ...
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 ...
Klare X. Allen stands in the middle of the gravel parking lot that may one day house Boston University’s “biocontainment” laboratory, pointing out landmarks. Her arm sweeps in a semicircle, past the ...