Biosafety Tips

Abstract

Biosafety Tips brings you practical approaches to biosafety or “news you can use.” If you are looking for a useful and sensible solution to a biocontainment problem or perhaps a reference to help convince a skeptical researcher of the need for caution, this is the place to look. In this column I share some biosafety insights for managing a variety of workplace situations. I welcome feedback or suggestions for future topics. Please e-mail any comments or suggestions to barbara_johnson@verizon.net.

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