The mistake happened in an instant. Inside one of the biosafety level 4 labs at the Galveston National Laboratory – where scientists wear full-body moonsuit-like gear as they study some of the world’s ...

On a warm summer evening in July 2014, a laboratory worker on the National Institutes of Health’s sprawling campus just north of Washington, D.C., exited Building 29A toting a cardboard box. Its ...

The CDC announced Thursday that the organization is currently investigating how one of its laboratory workers could have become infected with Salmonella while conducting lab work involving the ...

Boston University scientists have created a hybrid version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Their experiments sparked controversy, with heated headlines claiming that the researchers made the ...