The University no longer operates any Biosafety Level 3 laboratories following changes to SARS-CoV-2 research containment ...
A former senior adviser to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci shared “confidential” communications with EcoHealth Alliance about how the agency was ...
In Manhattan, Kan., the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), an animal disease research facility, has finished construction. Replacing the 68-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center, NBAF ...
On May 25, 2023, merely six weeks before the Wuhan Biosafety lab lost its NIH funding amid the controversy of possible lab leaks and connection with COVID-19, the U.S. proudly opened the doors of the ...
BSL-2 is designed for work with agents that pose moderate hazards to personnel and the environment. These agents are associated with human diseases that are generally treatable or preventable. Agents ...
The lowest of the four biosafety levels and is suitable for work involving well-characterized agents not known to consistently cause disease in healthy adult humans. These organisms pose minimal ...
The debate on whether to regulate the types of biosafety levels permitted in labs in San Carlos was meant to be put to an end Monday but councilmembers agreed to postpone their vote until all five ...
The two documents that apply broadly to biological agents and research in the United States are Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories and National Institutes of Health Guidelines ...
What do hantavirus, the Yersinia pestis bacteria, the 1918 influenzas virus, and the H5N1 virus have in common? The virus found in rodent droppings, the culprit behind the Black Death, the cause of ...
Melanie Ott is director of the Gladstone Infectious Disease Institute in San Francisco, California, USA, and professor in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, ...
The new report, “Muddy Waters: The Origins of COVID-19,” was put together by the GOP minority staff on the Senate Health Committee. The inquiry cast doubt on the possibility that COVID-19 emerged at a ...