For those involved in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, these are frightening times. Health care providers, sometimes working in improvised protective equipment, risk exposure to the coronavirus from ...

Tulane National Primate Research Center south of Covington. (NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) (CHUCK COOK) At the Tulane National Primate Research Center near Covington, the most secure labs are ...

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 ...

TIRUPATI: In a major boost to India’s epidemic preparedness and infectious disease research capacity, the Indian Institute of ...

There’s so much scientists still don’t know about the novel coronavirus: basic stuff, like how exactly it invades a host’s healthy cells, the molecular interactions that enable it to spread through ...

In February, UC plans to submit an application for federal funding that would support construction of a national, high-security laboratory at UC Davis where infectious diseases could be safely ...

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 ...

Who is required to take this course? Do you work in a biological research laboratory? If so, this course is strongly recommended for a one-time completion; however, if there are significant changes in ...

Our luck has run out. The worst pandemic in a century has killed over 3.7 million people globally. In the United States, almost 600,000 have lost their lives to COVID-19. Societies around the world ...

The USDA will operate the new $1.25 billion biosafety level-4 laboratories the federal government is building in Manhattan, KS. A biosafety level 4 laboratory provides the highest level of containment ...

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 ...

Researchers at Montana State University have validated and compared two methods for inactivating the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that would enable the virus to be studied at ...