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Black swans from Mars? The real risks of sending alien samples home

By Valerie Brown | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Investigative Reporting, Special Topics

Video: The rise of maximum containment laboratories

By Erik English | Biosecurity

Galveston National Laboratory.

Despite risk-management gaps, countries press ahead with new labs that study deadly pathogens

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

A research lab in Kyiv.

Read the best of 2022 biosecurity coverage in the Bulletin

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

See all of the world’s BSL-4 laboratories

By Erik English | Biosecurity

A researcher inspects protective gear.

How to make sure the labs researching the most dangerous pathogens are safe and secure

By Joseph Rodgers, Filippa Lentzos, Gregory D. Koblentz, Minh Ly | Biosecurity

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 in yellow.

Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory? Very possibly.

By Milton Leitenberg | Biosecurity

Hot zone in the heartland?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Investigative Reporting