So far, the most serious accidents have occurred abroad, including the deaths of a Russian lab worker exposed to Ebola and a Chinese lab worker exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as ...

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 ...

University of Texas at Austin officials failed to report 10 laboratory accidents to federal authorities over the past seven years, the Associated Press reported. In five of the incidents, laboratory ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing as more labs ...

(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 ...

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 ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...