Incidents causing potential exposures to pathogens occur frequently in the high security laboratories often known by their acronyms, BSL3 (Biosafety Level 3) and BSL4. Lab incidents that lead to ...
A laboratory technician in Atlanta may have been exposed to the Ebola virus, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A small amount of material from an Ebola virus experiment that was ...
FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver slammed journalists for a "massive error" in labeling the lab-leak discussion "misinformation" on Monday following the Energy Department's conclusion that the ...
A drug testing error at the Hamilton County Coroner's Office and Crime Lab has triggered an audit reviewing six months of drug cases. The lab is housed in a new state ...
A scientific study published this past spring came with damning implications for Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who created the world’s first gene-edited babies: People with the rare genetic variants ...
Most Americans are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his famous 18th-century experiment in which he attached a metal key to a kite during a thunderstorm to see if the lightning would ...