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Sandia’s international peer mentorship program improves biorisk management

October 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The world is becoming increasingly interconnected. While this has definite advantages, it also makes it easier to spread disease. Many diseases don’t produce symptoms for days or weeks, far longer than international flight times. For example, Ebola has an incubation period of two to 21 days. Improving...
Emad Zaki pf Egypt explains his twinning project poster at the 2017 American Biological Safety Association conference.

Designing diagnostic labs that are safe, specific and sustainable

January 24, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An outbreak is like a wildfire; the sooner it’s caught, the easier it is to fight, said Vips Halkjaer-Knudsen, a lab design expert at Sandia National Laboratories. To detect an outbreak early — whether Ebola, Zika or influenza — healthcare workers must have a local, trustworthy diagnostic...
Bill Arndt in biosafety demonstration lab

‘Laboratory Biorisk Management’ details safety, security methods for biosciences sites

August 25, 2015 • Sandia, international experts publish first biorisk management how-to book ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Recent mishaps at laboratories that mishandled potentially dangerous biological substances and the transmission of the Ebola virus in a U.S. hospital are symptoms at bioscience facilities that two Sandia National Laboratories researchers think could be prevented by implementing...
Laboratory Biorisk Management book editors