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 ...

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 ...

Klare X. Allen stands in the middle of the gravel parking lot that may one day house Boston University’s “biocontainment” laboratory, pointing out landmarks. Her arm sweeps in a semicircle, past the ...

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 ...

BOSTON – Boston University (BU) received the go-ahead on Feb. 16 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to erect a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory. BU is only the second university in the ...

Former Boston University Medical Campus Director of External Affairs Egobudike Ezedi, who originally defended BU’s plans for a Biosafety Level-4 laboratory in the South End, has now taken a stance ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two airlocked steel doors away from Texas Biomedical Research Institute's biosafety level-4 lab, where only deadly infectious diseases with no treatments or vaccines available are studied, two ...