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 alternative text for this ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. 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 ...

The Purdue University Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) reviews research protocols involving the use of recombinant DNA (rDNA), synthetic nucleic acids, and/or biohazardous agents that present a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, then-chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, joined at left by Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., the ranking member, makes closing remarks following ...

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 ...

Case Western Reserve University is committed to ensuring the highest standards of biosafety. Our team in the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) office provides training covering biosafety ...

A Biological Safety Cabinets (BSC) is an enclosed, ventilated laboratory workspace for safely working with materials contaminated with (or potentially contaminated with) pathogens requiring a defined ...

As a life science project progresses, it can travel through different domains of science, or at least the purviews of different government regulators. A project to produce novel molecules might start ...

Biosafety cabinets, an integral part of hospital, research, and industry laboratories across the globe, create a clean and/or ventilated workspace for drug preparation, diagnosis, research, and ...

The goal of this manual is to provide policies and procedures that when implemented will reduce risks to the University of Nevada, Reno community from biological agents, including pathogenic organisms ...