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 ...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases within the NIH put the brakes on research at its high containment lab (known as the Integrated Research Facility) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, ...
Not everyone agrees the risk is so steep, and federal officials point to the extensive measures that high-containment laboratories take to mitigate risks. But, a decade later, such questions are in ...
In the world of containment facility design, where safety protocols and engineering performance standards ultimately trump all other programmatic considerations, government agencies and research ...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research on coronaviruses and other harmful pathogens has increased in laboratories across the world — and not just any labs. Work of this sort often requires ...
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 ...
Daily life as a researcher in the typical high-containment lab facility goes something like this: Arrive early in the morning at a nondescript building. Pass through security. Complete extensive ...
This article originally appeared on Undark. 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 ...