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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NBAF, the federal animal disease lab in Manhattan, is being exempted from the federal hiring freeze and is looking to fill ...

The NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acids (NIH Guidelines) provide details regarding "the practices for constructing and handling: (i) recombinant nucleic acid ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- Caribbean News Global) GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (DPI) – Patients are set to benefit from improved diagnostic services with the establishment of Guyana's first-ever Biosafety Level Three (BSL-3) ...

Update: Executive Order 14292, “Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research”, issued on May 5, 2025, has ordered a suspension of all federally funded dangerous gain-of-function research ...

India strengthens pandemic preparedness with a new BSL-4 biocontainment facility in Gandhinagar for advanced virology ...

Guyana will soon benefit from its first ever Biosafety Level Three (BSL-3) laboratory which according to a Department of Public Information release yesterday, will offer patients improved diagnostic ...