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A professional detour veered Ludovic Desvignes into a high-maintenance career—director of a high-containment facility.

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Opinion: Coronavirus and Regulating Access to High-Risk Pathogens

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Canadian Official Reprimanded for Withholding Winnipeg Lab Info

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What Pseudoviruses Bring to the Study of SARS-CoV-2

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Scientists Around the Globe Pivot Their Research to SARS-CoV-2

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Some Coronavirus Researchers Are Running Low on Masks

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CDC Shuts Down Army Lab’s Disease Research

Gas Cylinder Explosion Kills Researcher at Indian Laboratory

Federal Ban Lifted on Studying Most Dangerous Pathogens

Nutrient-Control for GM Bacteria

CDC Reassigns Lab Regulation Chief

Controlling Synthetic Bacteria

Reining in Gene Drives

Toward Eliminating Poliovirus—In the Lab

DoD Under Investigation for Pathogen-Handling Mistakes

Anthrax Sent in Error to 86 Labs

Mistaken Anthrax Shipments

CDC Scores Poorly on Biosafety

GMO “Kill Switches”

CDC Seeks Safety Chief

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Biomedical Informatician Atul Butte Dies at 55

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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The Genes That Shaped Pets and Domesticated Livestock

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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June 2025, Issue 1

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Waters Enhances Alliance iS HPLC System Software, Setting a New Standard for End-to-End Traceability and Data Integrity 

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Agilent Announces the Enhanced 8850 Gas Chromatograph

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Pioneering Cancer Plasticity Atlas will help Predict Response to Cancer Therapies