Last month, Brazil celebrated breaking ground on what it hopes will become the first maximum-security biosciences laboratory in Latin America. Many researchers are excited at the prospect of a ...

Smriti Mallapaty is a senior reporter in Sydney, Australia. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, plans are afoot to build more than 40 high-level biosafety laboratories around the world, including in ...

Experts have raised biosafety concerns amid a rapid rise in the number of labs handling dangerous pathogens. As the debate over the potential origin of the COVID-19 pandemic rages, a group of ...