How to Use biosafety in a Sentence

biosafety

noun
  • But a lot of biosafety starts long before researchers enter the lab.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Once in the lab, the samples are prepared for testing under biosafety hoods.
    — Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2019
  • This ship is an expedition cruise, with state-of-the-art biosafety measures.
    — Akash Kapur, New Yorker, 12 May 2026
  • At the same time, the intelligence report did point to biosafety concerns.
    — ProPublica, 7 July 2023
  • But biosafety isn’t just rules; it is practiced by individuals.
    — National Geographic, 6 May 2016
  • Beijing doesn’t want the world to know the true origin of the coronavirus and its serious biosafety lapses.
    — Mike Pompeo and Miles Yu, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
  • All this work takes place in high-level biosafety laboratories staffed by skilled workers, who are in short supply.
    — Charles Schmidt, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
  • Researchers have pointed out that these incidents had more to do with biosafety and training issues than with the risk of the research itself.
    — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 23 Oct. 2014
  • Researchers fear that, without strict biosafety measures, China’s fur farms could become disease hot spots.
    — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This is in part because a suitable strain of the virus -- and the proper dosage -- must be developed in a lab outfitted with high biosafety standards.
    — Robert Kuznia, CNN, 13 May 2020
  • Its rules require rooms where cadavers and body parts are used for education or research to have biosafety features, such as a working sink.
    — Elizabeth Culliford, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2017
  • For biosafety proponents, the extra scrutiny has filled a void left by an absence of new regulations.
    — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The highest, biosafety level four, is reserved for deadlier pestilences, such as the Ebola virus.
    — Rebecca Renner, Science, 11 Dec. 2020
  • When the next disease X comes, there will always be a question about biosafety, about a lab leak, there will be conspiracy theorists.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Managers choreographed a relay race, with handoffs of vaccine containers outside the biosafety airlocks.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • As genome writing and editing becomes more accessible, biosafety is a top priority.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The viral particles serve as a proxy for the live coronavirus; testing otherwise would require a lab with extremely high biosafety levels.
    — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The team spent about three hours at the institute and was not given permission to interview staff members or review the lab’s biosafety records or database of viral sequences.
    — Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • That leaves biosafety as the nation’s primary defense against one of American agriculture’s biggest challenges in years.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Jan. 2025
  • China adopted legislation to improve biosafety around the time of the covid-19 outbreak caused by the novel coronavirus.
    — David Willman, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Because of this new level of accessibility, biosafety is a top priority.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2021
  • To be sure, some gain-of-function research on pathogens requires a higher level of review given its ramifications for biosafety and biosecurity.
    — Victor Dirita, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
  • While none of the serpents were venomous, at least four of the species are considered alien to China, which could constitute a violation of Chinese biosafety law.
    — Dylan Butts, CNBC, 11 July 2024
  • But now, a new study in the journal Science has demonstrated how AI could be used to easily circumvent those biosafety processes.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Fort Detrick has one of the country's few labs with biosafety level 4-specialized equipment, allowing researchers to work on the most deadly viruses.
    — Jennifer Griffin | Fox News, Fox News, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Biosafety Level 4 labs - or BSL4 labs - have the highest level of biosafety precautions.
    — David Klepper, Chron, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Their biosafety plan, which was reviewed by The Times and approved by the aid agency, included medical screenings of field workers, as well as spot checks and audits by biosafety specialists.
    — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Then there’s the claim that WIV experienced a biosafety incident in late 2019 that prompted a crisis response.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
  • My research lab works on a pathogen, Coccidioidomycosis fungus, that must be studied in a BSL-3 [biosafety level 3] lab.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Beijing has a moral and legal obligation to take biosafety seriously, especially given the kind of research going on at WIV.
    — Mike Pompeo and Miles Yu, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021

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