The CDC/NIH has developed four biosafety levels that describe laboratory practices and techniques, safety equipment, and facility design features recommended for work with specific infectious ...

Organisms in this category are not known to cause disease in healthy human adults. IBC approval is required for all BSL-1 work. Principal Investigators must submit a MOUA to the IBC in order to ...

Principal Investigators must be closely familiar with health and safety guidelines applicable to their work and the required methods to uphold these practices ... IBC Form 1A - This form will ...

These introductory courses lay the foundation for additional hands-on, laboratory specific training that is necessary for researchers to work safely in a biological laboratory. Training requirements ...

To improve and streamline oversight of risky pathogen research, President-elect Donald Trump should create a new biosafety ...

UMass Lowell and the Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) are committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors by developing ...

Researchers at Texas Biomed identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is ...

Do you work in a biological research laboratory? If so, this course is strongly recommended for a one-time completion; however, if there are significant changes in regulations, training is required to ...

“It is clear that some or all of this work was being performed using a biosafety standard — biosafety level 2, the biosafety level of a standard US dentist’s office — that would ...