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
• 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
• At the same time, the intelligence report did point to biosafety concerns.
  — ProPublica, 7 July 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Biosafety Level 4 labs - or BSL4 labs - have the highest level of biosafety precautions.
  — David Klepper, Chron, 15 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Researchers fear that, without strict biosafety measures, China’s fur farms could become disease hot spots.
  — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• But biosafety isn’t just rules; it is practiced by individuals.
  — National Geographic, 6 May 2016
• State officials are proposing to build a new laboratory to replace the one run by the Health Department, which is the only Level 3 biosafety facility in the state.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 16 June 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
• 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
• 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
• In response to these and other mishaps, the White House announced far-reaching measures in 2015 to improve biosafety procedures, including increased training for lab workers.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 31 Oct. 2017
• Managers choreographed a relay race, with handoffs of vaccine containers outside the biosafety airlocks.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
• The biosciences boom There’s a lot at stake: the genetic building blocks that make up our bodies could unlock discoveries with wide-ranging effects, from health care and the economy to national defense and biosafety.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 11 Aug. 2023
• Kyle Johnson can’t enter his high-rise apartment tower outside Shanghai without being greeted by men in white biosafety suits, who take his temperature each time to check for signs of the coronavirus.
  — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 5 Feb. 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
• Initially, Russia allowed work on the novel coronavirus in biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) labs.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2020
• The first is biosafety: the effort to ensure through training and technology that workers stay free of infection and illness — not only for their own sake but also for that of surrounding communities.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• Ensuring that only researchers with approval from a biosafety authority can obtain DNA that is at risk of misuse can safeguard the future of biotechnology.
  — Kevin M. Esvelt, STAT, 8 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024