The $67 million Integrated Research Facility, which includes the west's first biosafety Level 4 laboratory, is expected to be fully operational by fall. Work began on the building in September 2004.

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 ...

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 ...

Although some Boston City Councilors will continue to fight the opening of Boston University’s Biosafety level-4 laboratory Wednesday, BU students said they were unaware that their next door neighbor ...

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 ...

Anthrax scares, smallpox worries and West Nile Virus outbreaks have all increased Americans’ concerns about bioterrorism possibilities and infectious diseases. To address these growing fears with more ...

Galveston academics faced a formidable task in the late 1990s when they first sought to build an ultrasecure lab to study the world's most infectious diseases. How best, they wondered, to convince ...