Within Spain’s First High Biosecurity Laboratory: Seven ‘Astronauts’ to Fight the World’s Most Dangerous Viruses

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There are seven people. Five of them, women. They work on the campus of the pharmaceutical company GSK in Tres Cantos, half an hour from Madrid. And so far, they did it in biosafety level 3 laboratories (BSL-3), the penultimate step of biological danger. Now, five of the 27 BSL-3 rooms that the company had in this complex have been converted to host two rooms of the first Spanish laboratory that will work at the maximum level of biosafety: the B…