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UTHealth, HCC, U.S. Government Create Novel Biosafety Training Program – Newswise (press release)

HOUSTON – (March 22, 2011) –The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Houston Community College (HCC) Coleman College for Health Sciences have been awarded a grant to establish the Biosafety Training Center, which will train, graduate and place biosafety technicians in jobs within one year.

March 23, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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Mobile Laboratory Ready to Roll into Province’s Rural Regions – Western Cape

Extended negotiations between the Western Cape Department of Health, University of Stellenbosch, National Health Laboratory Service and the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT), Germany, has borne fruit with the official handover ceremony of the Province’s new mobile diagnostic laboratory with bio safety level (BSL-3). Premier Helen Zille, officially received the mobile unit this morning Read More »

March 17, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Europe, and Biosafety
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BSL-3 lab opposed, norovirus vaccine tested

A watchdog group on Mar 11 appealed a court ruling that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., can study deadly pathogens such as those that cause anthrax and plague. The group, Tri-Valley CAREs, filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging a September ruling of the US District Court in Oakland Read More »

March 16, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Research
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Activists Appeal Ruling Over Livermore Biodefense Work

An activist organization on Friday filed an appeal to a federal court ruling that allows research into potential biological weapons materials such as anthrax and plague to continue at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the Contra Costa Times reported. Watchdog group Tri-Valley CAREs is appealing a September decision by the U.S. District Court Read More »

March 14, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Research
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NBAF awaits word from congress

Kansas State Collegian: Project coordinators for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility are awaiting word from Congress regarding President Barack Obama's recommended $150 million budget allocation for construction of the biosafety laboratory. Ron Trewyn, vice president for research, said the allocation is sufficient for the early steps of construction. “That would certainly be enough to Read More »