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 biosafety practices around the world […]
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Sandia’s international peer mentorship program improves biorisk management
October 24, 2017 – 1:04 pm
Designing diagnostic labs that are safe, specific and sustainable
January 24, 2017 – 9:00 am
Sandia develops new method of designing high-quality public health labs faster 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 […]
‘Laboratory Biorisk Management’ details safety, security methods for biosciences sites
August 25, 2015 – 5:00 am
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 the practices in a new […]
Sandia veterinarian helps make the world safer through livestock health and biosecurity
July 28, 2015 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dr. Melissa Finley’s credibility was on the line as she worked, surrounded by skeptics, to save the life of a dehydrated calf in rural Afghanistan. As a woman and a foreigner she had to earn the trust of the villagers she was trying to help. “They had never given fluids before, so […]