Biosafety and Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) quickly became the
cornerstone of biosafety practice and policy in the United States upon first publication in …

The first edition of this book, Chemical Warfare Agents: Toxicity at Low Levels, was
published just prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Reflecting a greater …

The attractive and deadly Ricinus communis (castor bean plant) has been cultivated for its
commercial products, primarily castor seed oil, for at least 4000 years (Olsnes, 2004) …

There are three approaches to protein engineering. The first, called “rational design,”
involves modifying the sequence of amino acids in a protein to alter its threedimensional …

Scientific research and their educational activities commonly produce a wide variety of
hazardous wastes in relatively small volumes including new materials of unknown toxicity …

Laboratories (BMBL) has become the code of practice for biosafety—the discipline
addressing the safe handling and containment of infectious microorganisms and hazardous …