NASEM will work with partner organizations in key countries to organize a series of workshops to explore ways to help prevent and mitigate the consequences of the zoonotic spillover originating in the ...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases within the NIH put the brakes on research at its high containment lab (known as the Integrated Research Facility) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, ...
The COVID pandemic illustrated the grave, global threat that a novel pathogen can pose. It also brought to the fore an uncomfortable idea that had long circulated in some corners of the life sciences: ...
Two Chicago hospitals will serve as "Elite Special Pathogen Treatment Centers" with state funding to upgrade their ability to care for patients with high-consequence pathogens such as Ebola virus, ...
Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who quit the Manhattan Project and later helped establish the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, with which he shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote ...
The study, titled “Successful Inactivation of High-Consequence Pathogens in PrimeStore Molecular Transport Media” and published in the journal Viruses, validates PrimeStore MTM's ability to safely and ...