Klare X. Allen stands in the middle of the gravel parking lot that may one day house Boston University’s “biocontainment” laboratory, pointing out landmarks. Her arm sweeps in a semicircle, past the ...

The biosafety Level 4 laboratory is something new for the Hamilton facility. Researchers working in these highly controlled environments are required to go through an elaborate process that includes ...

Containment cabinets in a BSL-3 laboratory, prior to the construction of modern BSL-4 labs. At first glance, the lab looks like any other. The refrigerators, centrifuges, and computers are all ...

So Ellen Berlin would like to bring up the topics of misinformation and ‘alarmist propaganda’ (‘Opponents to bio lab misinformed,’ Oct. 20, pg. 6). But let’s take a look at what she really has to say.