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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stories abound about scientists who do something stupid in a lab and stumble on a discovery. For example, there was the time ...

Fifteen years ago, a string of high-profile laboratory accidents, including the death of Sheri Sangji, rocked the world of chemistry. The events made Robert H. Hill, one of the authors of Laboratory ...

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 ...