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Sens. Blunt, McCaskill praise passage of biosecurity resolution | BioPrepWatch.com

March 16, 2014
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Obama Seeks ‘Final’ Funds to Build Kansas Biodefense Site | Global Security Newswire | NTI

March 11, 2014
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Obama Seeks ‘Final’ Funds to Build Kansas Biodefense Site

(Global Security News Wire) The Obama administration this week asked Congress for a $300 million “final” appropriation to construct a new biodefense laboratory in Kansas.The money is the last that officials would need to finish building the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kan., the U.S. Homeland Security Department said in its budget request Read More »

March 11, 2014
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Biosafety Bill Holds Key For Agric Transformation

(Leadership) The Biosafety Bill currently before the National Assembly is the only instrument that can improve agriculture and change the nation’s fortunes, several federal lawmakers have asserted. They made this point at the Monsanto/National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) dinner in Abuja. The Senate committee chairman on science and technology, Sen. Ajayi Boroffice, in his speech, Read More »

February 25, 2014
| Filed under Africa, Biosafety, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Health security effort to boost global disease response – Life – The Dolphin

February 20, 2014
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