Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December ...

* Bird flu and Ebola virus accidents raise biosecurity fears * European states urged to improve lab accident disclosure * Northern Europe reports most lab-acquired infections By Laura MacInnis and ...

America’s legacy media suffered a credibility crisis by prematurely dismissing the COVID lab leak theory from the onset of the pandemic and a new book puts a spotlight on why so many people wanted to ...

(Photo illustration by Max-o-matic for The Washington Post; photos by Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images and Shepherd Zhou/FeatureChina/AP Images) In the summer of 2019, a mysterious accident occurred ...

Encased in spacesuit-like gear needed to protect them from the world’s deadliest viruses, four scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped into their lab’s decontamination ...

In December 2014, two monkeys in outdoor cages at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, about 40 miles north of New Orleans, became ill with Burkholderia pseudomallei, a deadly bacterium in the ...

A 15-year-old student and teacher sustained burns when a fire erupted during a chemistry experiment at Brookline High School’s summer program on July 3. The incident highlights the need for laboratory ...

Space is hard, as the saying goes. Since its very first rocket launch from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, small rocket company Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) has attempted 40 separate orbital rocket ...

On Thursday Congress held the first of a series of planned hearings on the recent — and some might say reckless — proliferation of high-security bio-laboratories in the U.S. The questions at hand: How ...

It started with an accident that should never have happened. While a PhD student in 2013, Beau Wangtrakuldee was working in a lab when her ill-fitting lab coat got caught, causing a vessel to tip over ...

China has poured billions of dollars into lab construction and genetic engineering in its bid to become a science superpower, but safety practices have failed to keep up, investigations and reports of ...