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Green Light for Boston Biolab?

(Scientist) After that, the agency says it will consider issuing the final approval for the lab to begin biosafety level-2 research, which involves “agents that pose moderate hazards to personnel and the environment,” according to the federal government’s …

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(Business Standard) The team, composed of second-year art and design students, won the Best Human Practice prize, for postulating rules by which engineers can achieve maximal output with proper social responsibility. The project was titled “Searching for the Ubiquitous Genetically Engineered Machines”. The team asked this question: a century in the future, today’s synthetic biology  Read More »

Op-Ed — The International Federation of Biosafety Associations: A Stakeholder in the BTWC

The International Federation of Biosafety Associations (IFBA) is a global community of research scientists, biosafety professionals, laboratory personnel, NGOs, academics and policy makers from around the world who recognize that biosafety and biosecurity are important elements within the framework of biological non-proliferation and strengthening global security. The IFBA’s mission statement (“safe, secure and responsible work  Read More »

Dangerous Acquaintances

(Huffington Post) Experiments to make some of the world’s deadliest viruses more contagious to humans or to learn the secrets of those that already are contagious surge to the top of the news and slip downward with regularity. Now they are up again. This time it is work with the H5N1 avian flu virus, in  Read More »

Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies

(Science AAAS) “I can’t think of another pathogenic organism that is as scary as this one,” adds Keim, who has worked on anthrax for many years. “I don’t think anthrax is scary at all compared to this.” Some scientists say that’s reason enough not to do such research …

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