WASHINGTON – The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its evaluation of the security measures deployed at the nation’s five biosafety level (BSL) 4 laboratories. Two of the labs ...

None of the measures US officials are considering to protect people from biological research risks would have caught major incidents at two high-level US government laboratories.

Despite the dramatic series of equipment failures in the 2009 CDC biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) lab incident, the newly released records include emails showing some within the agency sought at the time to ...

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 ...