Several years ago, I was contracted to perform an evaluation study for an existing biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) biocontainment laboratory on the West Coast. The lab was actively performing research on ...

Our luck has run out. The worst pandemic in a century has killed over 3.7 million people globally. In the United States, almost 600,000 have lost their lives to COVID-19. Societies around the world ...

Michigan Tech requires that all personnel involved in the use of hazardous biological materials are properly trained. Biosafety Training courses are available online through CITI Program and Safety ...

While we can mathematically quantify the corresponding risk to laboratory workers, extending that risk assessment to the local and global community poses numerous challenges. First, we need a full ...

Three-quarters of countries that host labs designed for the study of the most dangerous pathogens fail to meet the highest standards for biosafety and biosecurity. Theories about a laboratory origin ...

Director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories and Chair of Microbiology, Boston University Microbiologist Ronald Corley has gone to work every day throughout the pandemic as ...

Mr. President, as officials, scientific experts, and the public have grappled with the potential that high-risk laboratory research could cause a pandemic like COVID-19 or worse, the study and ...