When a high containment laboratory handling lethal pathogens stumbles, even briefly, it exposes how much of the country’s ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases within the NIH put the brakes on research at its high containment lab (known as the Integrated Research Facility) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a collection of expert commentaries. You can read the rest of the series here. The world is seeing an increase in disease outbreaks that underscore the critical ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Microbe, researchers analyze the global incidences of laboratory-acquired infections (LAIs) and accidental pathogen escapes from 2000 to 2021 to identify ...