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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Fort Detrick houses some of the nation’s top biosafety level laboratories for medical research. In order to protect the Fort Detrick and Frederick communities, and the water quality of the Monocacy ...

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 FBI says Bruce Ivins acted alone when he sent letters containing anthrax in the mail, killing five people. Some wonder if ...

May 20 -- The government will launch a wide-ranging program of polygraph testing to determine if one of its own employees is responsible for last year's anthrax attacks, ABCNEWS has learned. As many ...

Maryland’s two U.S. senators urged the Army on Friday to strengthen its safety planning for a biodefense animal laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick after a National Academy of Sciences panel found ...

In the seconds Major Gen. Paula Lodi took to pass a burgundy command flag to the man facing her in Fort Detrick’s auditorium Wednesday morning, she completed her first act as the new commanding ...

Johns Hopkins biotechnology students who specialize in biodefense canearn a stint at Fort Detrick. The master?s-level program is part of a five-year agreement between Johns Hopkins? Advanced ...

The old laboratory, closed for decades, is widely known in Frederick County as "the tower of doom" -- a nearly windowless, seven-story structure of dark brick looming over the Army's Fort Detrick. It ...