Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Experts have raised biosafety concerns amid a rapid rise in the number of labs handling dangerous pathogens. As the ...

The missing samples — reported to include chikungunya and dengue viruses — have been recovered, but questions linger over ...

Recent accidents involving deadly pathogens at a leading laboratory in the United States highlight the need for a major global rethink of biosafety controls, experts say. The Centers for Disease ...

In biosafety testing, the expression “dot your i’s and cross your t’s” comes to mind. If only biosafety testing were so simple. But it isn’t. Yes, biosafety testing does require that we attend to the ...

Any proposed modification to an approved protocol must be approved by the IBC prior to implementation. Once an amendment has been submitted to the committee, it is pre-reviewed by a subcommittee of ...

The rapid growth of the biologics safety testing market has led to the need for more testing capabilities in manufacturing and clinical research. Industry guidelines require biopharmaceutical and ...

An inspection finds biosafety, laboratory working practices and compliance need strengthened.

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Environmental Health & Safety unit, within the Research & Innovation division, has recently updated the biosafety module in its hands-on laboratory safety training ...

Lt. Cmdr. Danett Bishop, from Hawthorn Woods, Illinois, tests respiratory samples in the biological safety lab of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) on March 18, 2020. (U.S. Navy photo by ...

Mr. President, as officials, scientific experts, and the public have grappled with the potential that high-risk laboratory research could cause a pandemic like COVID-19 or worse, the study and ...

A recent decision of the federal government to ban four transgenic cotton hybrid varieties, as illegal and dangerous to ...

This policy is to formalize the University of Colorado Boulder’s obligation to ensure that research activities involving recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules (rsNA) and bio hazardous ...