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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Members of the congressional delegation for Frederick County this week sent a letter to federal agency heads calling for answers about the safety stand-down at a Fort Detrick research facility. The ...

The Black Maria was the first laboratory facility built to accommodate top secret research on Fort Detrick. Construction began on the two-story temporary tar paper-covered shack dubbed “Black Maria” ...

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 ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. – Over 2,100 students participated in this year’s Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science summer programs at six U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command research ...