Containment cabinets in a BSL-3 laboratory, prior to the construction of modern BSL-4 labs. At first glance, the lab looks like any other. The refrigerators, centrifuges, and computers are all ...

The biosafety Level 4 laboratory is something new for the Hamilton facility. Researchers working in these highly controlled environments are required to go through an elaborate process that includes ...

Klare X. Allen stands in the middle of the gravel parking lot that may one day house Boston University’s “biocontainment” laboratory, pointing out landmarks. Her arm sweeps in a semicircle, past the ...

Even as Boston University’s Level 4 Biosafety Laboratory is set for constructions, opponents are increasing the pressure to keep the biolab out of Boston. Biosafety Level 4 Laboratories deal with the ...

BOSTON – Boston University (BU) received the go-ahead on Feb. 16 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to erect a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory. BU is only the second university in the ...

On May 25, 2023, merely six weeks before the Wuhan Biosafety lab lost its NIH funding amid the controversy of possible lab leaks and connection with COVID-19, the U.S. proudly opened the doors of the ...

Galveston academics faced a formidable task in the late 1990s when they first sought to build an ultrasecure lab to study the world's most infectious diseases. How best, they wondered, to convince ...

A huge construction crane towers over a corner of the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories campus in Hamilton, a small town south of Missoula. As the crane slings buckets of ...

HELENA - A proposed federal biohazard lab planned at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton would pose a "negligible" risk to the community, federal authorities concluded in a second ...