STAT

To accelerate innovation, the CDC should ease limits on which labs can handle the coronavirus

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 ...
Bdcnetwork.com

BSL conversions: A cost-efficient method to support high-containment research

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 ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop

As many of the previous sessions dealt mainly with BSL-3 labs, this session focused on some of the special issues associated with BSL-4 facilities (see Table 8-1 for a list of operational BSL-4 ...
STAT

Studying the coronavirus requires a special, high-security lab - STAT

Before the pandemic, there was only a small group of researchers dedicated to studying coronaviruses. Now though, scientists around the world are turning their focus to the virus called SARS-CoV-2.
Live Science

Countries hosting dangerous pathogen labs lack biosecurity

Three-quarters of countries that host labs designed for the study of the most dangerous pathogens fail to meet the highest standards for biosafety and biosecurity. Theories about a laboratory origin ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How to make sure the labs researching the most dangerous pathogens are safe and secure

Since 2001, biological risks—from terror attacks involving anthrax letters to outbreaks of new and re-emerging infectious diseases like SARS, Ebola, H5N1 avian ...
Nature

COVID prompts global surge in labs that handle dangerous pathogens

Smriti Mallapaty is a senior reporter in Sydney, Australia. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, plans are afoot to build more than 40 high-level biosafety laboratories around the world, including in ...
The Business Journals

‘Biggest biotech you’ve never heard of’ opens higher-security lab in Waltham

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The Australian-based ...
The Hindu

Why BSL-3 lab for Nipah confirmation is unnecessary

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 ...
Business Insider

Only a quarter of the 59 labs that handle the world's deadliest pathogens have top-level biosecurity, experts warn. They fear lax rules could lead to another pandemic.

Only around a quarter of countries with biosafety level 4 labs — where researchers work with the world's deadliest pathogens — have high biosecurity scores, according to a new report. As US ...

BSL-3 lab in Kozhikode set to strengthen Nipah virus detection

Kozhikode's new BSL-3 lab enhances Nipah virus detection and strengthens the state's diagnostic capabilities for ...
Indiatimes

BSL III labs to come up in Noida, Greater Noida

LUCKNOW: The state government has decided to set up three BSL III (biosafety level) labs in Noida, Greater Noida and Shahjahanpur soon. Besides,10 BSL II labs would be set up in medical colleges ...