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 ...

Screams of protest erupted from community members in a meeting Wednesday night at the Boston Public Library with Boston Redevelopment Authority and Boston University officials regarding BU’s planned ...

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 ...

Bioscrypt Inc., a leading provider of identity verification technology, today announced that the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) has selected Bioscrypt's V-Pass and V-Station biometric ...

Although some Boston City Councilors will continue to fight the opening of Boston University’s Biosafety level-4 laboratory Wednesday, BU students said they were unaware that their next door neighbor ...

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 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 ...