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, ...

A research lab at Fort Detrick is restructuring after an investigation last year found a larger breakdown of trust in leadership taking safety concerns seriously, according to the National Institutes ...

In the world of containment facility design, where safety protocols and engineering performance standards ultimately trump all other programmatic considerations, government agencies and research ...

(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.

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 ...

As many of the previous sessions dealt mainly with BSL-3 labs, this session focused on some of the special issues associated with BSL-4 facilities (see Table 8-1 for a list of operational BSL-4 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Did you know the largest collection of viruses in the world is protected and studied inside a massive biodefense lab. And guess what, the largest high-containment lab of its ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday lifted a moratorium on transfers of inactivated materials from its clinical tuberculosis ...

The Containment Lab Community Advisory Committee elected Ray Hunter as its new chairman Tuesday evening. Hunter retired from the Department of Energy in 1998 as deputy director of its Office of ...

Some of nature’s fiercest filter-feeders might also be its unlikeliest landscape engineers. A study published last month by researchers at the Yale Carbon Containment Lab and the University of Florida ...