Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick has been ordered ...

The Army said Monday it has suspended much of the research at its flagship biological weapons defense laboratory at Fort Detrick while it makes sure it has accounted for all of its dangerous germs and ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services Department ordered a pause on all research activities at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases research ...

In a sealed greenhouse on the edge of Fort Detrick's sprawling campus in Frederick, scientists in hospital scrubs check rows of soybean sprouts, working to counter a threat that, if left unchecked, ...

A work stoppage at a Fort Detrick lab — prompted earlier this year by a hole in a hazmat suit — was lifted in late October and research is expected to resume in the coming months, according to the ...

Days before the anthrax attacks became known, Dr. Ayaad Assaad sat terrified in a vault-like room at an FBI field office in Washington, D.C. The walls were gray and windowless. The door was locked. It ...

FREDERICK — Cutting-edge technology is matched by high-tech security at a newly renovated Army biodefense laboratory, officials said Wednesday during a tour of the research suite at Fort Detrick.

The Department of Homeland Security dedicated a massive biodefense laboratory in Frederick yesterday, moving toward the facility's opening despite questions raised about the risks of deadly pathogens ...