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 ...

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 ...

Summary of recommended biosafety levels for management of biological organisms. The laboratory director is specifically and primarily responsible for assessing the risks and applying the appropriate ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – A $7.6 million lab designed to let researchers safely work with potentially deadly infections such as Covid-19, Lyme disease and West Nile virus opened today at SUNY Upstate Medical ...

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 ...

Guyana will soon benefit from its first ever Biosafety Level Three (BSL-3) laboratory which according to a Department of Public Information release yesterday, will offer patients improved diagnostic ...

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 ...