Containment laboratories generally have a requirement to evaluate workers who have had a lab mishap. We had a standard method in our lab for assessing what we called “potential exposures” which we ...

Suspicions abound that the SARS-CoV2 virus that caused the COVID-19 outbreak may have escaped from a containment laboratory in Wuhan, China, despite scientific experts weighing in that the disease ...

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1. What high-containment biological research facilities exist in the United States? Since 2001, the number of facilities that can conduct high-containment biological research (United States Centers ...

The CDC is asking Congress for $350 million to replace its aging high containment laboratory, which studies some of the world’s deadliest pathogens, according to STAT. Deadly pathogens, such as ...

The tuberculosis lab, which last year processed more than 500 specimens from around the United States, is the first of the CDC's high-containment labs to be cleared to resume transfers of biological ...

In February, UC plans to submit an application for federal funding that would support construction of a national, high-security laboratory at UC Davis where infectious diseases could be safely ...

Daily life as a researcher in the typical high-containment lab facility goes something like this: Arrive early in the morning at a nondescript building. Pass through security. Complete extensive ...

Recirculating technology improves system performance while reducing energy consumption and supporting more sustainable ...

The Federation of American Scientists have a very interesting map for all the hypochondriacs and people living in permanent fear of a deadly virus epidemic. Or a zombie outbreak. These are all the ...

A report from Frederick’s Containment Laboratory Community Advisory Committee found that the summer shutdown of high-level research at a Fort Detrick laboratory has “likely little risk” to the ...