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 ...

A new analysis of more than a century of laboratory biosafety incidents found that disease outbreaks are closely linked to operational failures, lab settings, and type of personnel involved. The ...

BSL-2 is designed for work with agents that pose moderate hazards to personnel and the environment. These agents are associated with human diseases that are generally treatable or preventable. Agents ...

Laboratory biosafety practices are based on the principle of containment of biological agents to prevent exposure to laboratory workers and the outside environment. Primary containment protects the ...

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 ...

African swine fever virus (ASFV) causes fatal disease in wild and domestic pigs. Thankfully, ASFV does not cause disease in people, but it can be economically devastating for commercial pork producers ...

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 ...

Defenders of the Hamilton biosafety lab see campaign as an attack on science while others accuse it of malfeasance.

Microbiologist Ronald Corley has gone to work every day throughout the pandemic as director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. Within this secure lab facility in Boston, ...