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New Zealand Opens Advanced Biolab

(Global Security Newswire) A new highly secure biological research laboratory that opened on Monday in Christchurch, New Zealand, will allow the city to analyze anthrax and other disease samples rather than sending them to another jurisdiction, the Press reported. Canterbury Health Laboratories is operating New Zealand’s lone Physical Containment 3-certified hospital laboratory. The new $814,000  Read More »

Married Army scientists bolster biological-threat detection – United States Army (press release)

Married Army scientists bolster biological-threat detectionUnited States Army (press release)Mark works with dangerous organisms in ECBC's Biosafety Level 3,. or BSL-3, laboratory, which is one of 45 in the country. He dons sophisticated protective equipment in highly controlled lab conditions to prepare the Army for worst-case biowarfare …

Former graduate student under investigation for possible theft of chemical …

(UT The Daily Texan) UTPD officials investigating the incident found 11 vials containing a non-dangerous fragment of toxic Ricin DNA and later discovered 44 plastic vials in Jasheway’s apartment. Naturally occurring Ricin is highly toxic and is produced by the castor oil …

$1 Billion Price Tag For NBAF

(KCUR.org) The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility will cost more than $1 billion when all is said and done, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed today during a conference in Washington, D.C. And that price tag is becoming a huge sticking point.

State could bolster lab oversight

(Frederick News Post) “Biosafety and biosecurity regulation and oversight is currently fragmented in Maryland, as it is in much of the country, and laboratories have to report to a multitude of federal and state organizations,” Young said at a Senate Finance Committee …

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