Given the lack of stringent and uniform federal regulations, Boston's emergent biotech lab industry have the responsibility to ensure they are operating with the safety of their neighbors in mind.
Boston University researchers are hard at work in the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories while others develop data collection technology to ensure students can return safely and stay healthy on campus in the coming months.
The BU research community have committed themselves to combating the coronavirus since the campus shutdown announced on March 17. Medical students, lab technicians and professors have joined an international movement of private institutions dedicating their resources and expertise to pandemic response.
A recent study by Boston University researchers has found that signs of the Ebola virus can be detected days before symptoms appear, potentially allowing the disease to be diagnosed even earlier than before.
Boston University researchers are poised to move into the forefront of the battle against Ebola, Zika and other emerging life-threatening diseases, as the university’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases...
Boston University ranked sixth in the nation for its biomedical research to address global health, according to the 2015 University Report Card released Tuesday from the Universities Allied for Essential...
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The 2013-14 academic year at Boston University has been marked by significant change. From the way the university looks to the way it is run, from the creation of new programs to the tragic...
After months of deliberations. a City Council vote and Massachusetts Superior Court ruling on Wednesday moved Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories closer toward full...
More than 300 Boston University officials and Boston residents attended a hearing at City Hall Wednesday to debate an ordinance that would ban BU from conducting research on deadly pathogens in its...
The National Institutes of Health announced the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories pose a minimal risk to the community, according to a press release Wednesday.
“The...
Although the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories' revamped website provides research information to increase transparency, community members said they still have unaddressed...
Although proponents of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories said the facilities have the proper safeguards, Boston University students and locals called for officials to stop the study...
