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, ...

(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.

It’s quiet in the laboratory, almost peaceful. But I’m holding live SARS-CoV-2 in my hands and this virus is not to be taken lightly. As I dilute the coronavirus to infect cultured cells, I hear the ...

The Democrat and Chronicle was one of 12 Gannett newspapers that partnered with a USA Today investigation, Biolabs in Your Backyard, about the concerns and dangers that can accompany biomedical ...

Infectious disease hub has "serious" containment problems, staff says. June 13, 2012— -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal agency charged with preventing the spread of ...

The Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee will meet at 7 p.m. today in the boardroom at Frederick City Hall, 101 N. Court St. The committee will discuss ideas for a possible safety information ...

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Members of the Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee are devising a strategy to persuade state lawmakers to pass legislation next year that would require labs housing dangerous substances to ...

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Under the leadership of former Senior Director of the Yale Investments Office Dean Takahashi ’80 SOM ’83, the Yale Carbon Containment Lab has been examining how to research ways to cut and store ...