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 ...

Replacing the 68-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center, NBAF, when fully operational, will have labs functioning at multiple biosafety levels—including the nation’s first facility with biosafety ...

The 2022 outbreak of monkeypox reignited discussions around the importance of safety and transparency in high-containment ...

A little over 17 years ago, in an auditorium at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston Texas, a motley crew of dignitaries gathered to celebrate the construction of a state-of-the-art ...

A new report from Wired reveals the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has shuttered a federal lab dedicated to ... meet the criteria for Biosafety Level 4, the highest level of ...

M.K. Raghavan, MP, has sought the intervention of the Union Health Minister for sanctioning a Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory in Kozhikode district in the wake of recurring Nipah threat.

Biosafety levels (BSL) are used to identify the protective measures needed in a laboratory setting ... have a high level of containment that is second only to BSL-4 labs, which have the greatest ...

Slow progress on BSL-3 lab at Govt. Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, expected to be completed by year-end.

The Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) lab and the proposed isolation block, remain incomplete. This marks the sixth time the state has faced the threat of Nipah since the 2018 outbreak, which had a ...