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 ...

A survey of more than 200 researchers shows strong support for a new community-driven lab handbook that can be implemented by individual group leaders to reduce conflict and create more positive and ...

Although attitudes towards lab safety have grown more positive over the years, some academic researchers still believe that safe lab practices hamper research productivity. The idea is that time spent ...

Purdue Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) has launched a new initiative to recognize research labs that go above and beyond in promoting a safe, compliant and respectful working environment — the ...

Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) has traditionally relied on a fixed air changes per hour (ACH) approach to ensure safety in laboratory and research settings. Unfortunately, this method ...

One of the key research facilities in our ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, The Security Assessment and Forensic Examination (SAFE) Lab provides students with a living laboratory environment to gain ...

For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declared a lab-grown meat, Upside Foods' cultivated chicken, as safe to eat. Lab-grown meat – which is also referred to as cell-based, ...

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