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 ...

While Americans, at the federal government's urging, rely on duct tape and sheets of plastic to counter a potential biological attack, vaccines and drugs that might better protect them could go ...

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 ...

Ebola virus research is conducted in maximum containment Biosafety Level 4, or BSL-4, laboratories, where investigators wear positive-pressure suits and breathe filtered air as they work. Here, ...

As many of the previous sessions dealt mainly with BSL-3 labs, this session focused on some of the special issues associated with BSL-4 facilities (see Table 8-1 for a list of operational BSL-4 ...

As the National Institutes of Health continues to weigh safety issues surrounding Boston University’s completed Biosafety Level-4 laboratory, BU officials said safety and simulation training are ...

Smriti Mallapaty is a senior reporter in Sydney, Australia. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, plans are afoot to build more than 40 high-level biosafety laboratories around the world, including in ...