Several years ago, I was contracted to perform an evaluation study for an existing biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) biocontainment laboratory on the West Coast. The lab was actively performing research on ...

Biosecurity practices cannot be built without a strong safety culture and it is therefore generally agreed that training should be a precondition for starting work in specialized, safety- and security ...

Environmental and peace activists are claiming a pair of preliminary victories in a battle over bringing Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) labs to the nation's top nuclear weapons research facilities in Los ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the United States in 2020, the American research community experienced a sudden spike in funding. Universities, pharmaceutical companies, and state and federal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For those involved in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, these are frightening times. Health care providers, sometimes working in ...

Not long after SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in December 2019 as the cause of an alarming cluster of severe pneumonia cases in central China, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

On September 11, samples sent to Calicut Medical College for testing were confirmed as Nipah virus. But only on September 20, after 323 samples were tested for the virus, did ICMR permit Kerala to use ...

Rajkot: AIIMS Rajkot is set to establish Gujarat’s first BSL-3 laboratory within its premises by Dec 2025, following the signing of an MoU with HLL Life Care India and obtaining approval from ICMR.

The new Biosafety Level-3 (BSL-3) laboratory at the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode, is nearing completion, with full operations expected to commence shortly. Established with ...

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit inaugurated the Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) experimentation facility at JNU on Friday. "Atal Incubation Centre ...

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 ...

Nagpur: In a significant step forward for public health in Vidarbha and surrounding areas, AIIMS Nagpur will soon be home to Maharashtra's first Bio-Safety Level-3 (BSL-3) laboratory in a medical ...