laboratory safety
A glossary of biosafety terms
Pairs that share a bench still do different jobs. Use this comparison to choose the right word for a cabinet, a chemical, a level, or a control.
8 October 2026 · 11 min read
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Articles tagged biosafety. Tags group methods across clusters so a technique can be found from more than one route.
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laboratory safety
Autoclaves and what sterilisation does not do
Steam sterilisation holds a cleaned load at temperature. It does not wash, remove endotoxin, or prove sterility because the tape changed colour.
8 October 2026 · 11 min read
Pillar · laboratory safety
Biosafety basics for research benches
Research-bench biosafety is a stack of barriers chosen by a risk assessment. This page explains the stack. It does not approve the work.
8 October 2026 · 10 min read
microbiology
Biosafety for non-pathogenic cloning work
Disabled K-12 cloning strains are still living bacteria. This page lists practices that match low-risk plasmid work and leaves the containment level to the institution.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
cell culture
Biosafety level is an institutional decision
BSL-1 and BSL-2 as educational descriptions only: the containment assignment for a line or sample is made by the institution, and a supplier cannot make it.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
laboratory safety
Biosafety levels are not a slogan
Biosafety levels name a bundle of practices, equipment, and facilities. They are not a slogan, and this page will not assign one to your organism.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
cytometry and microscopy
Biosafety of unfixed human samples
Why unfixed human blood, tissue and cells on a cytometer or microscope stay an institutional biosafety decision, not a technique choice.
8 October 2026 · 6 min read
liquid handling
Decontamination of a pipette
Choose a pipette decontamination from the manufacturer insert, including disinfectant, UV limits, autoclave permission, and the tip ejector.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read
laboratory safety
Disinfectants and contact time
Contact time, concentration, and organic load decide whether a disinfectant can work. Ethanol and bleach both fail in predictable ways.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
microbiology
Disposal of bacterial waste
Liquid cultures, agar plates, tips and sharps are different waste. The institution chooses inactivation. This page lists the questions to take to the safety office.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
genome editing
Ethics and approvals are outside a reagent quote
A reagent quotation covers research materials only. Institutional biosafety review, ethics review and germline limits stay with the reader's own institution.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
research sourcing
Ethics approvals sit outside a product quote
Decide whether human, animal, or clinical-adjacent material needs an institutional ethics or biosafety decision before a kit is quoted.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read