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NIH rejects charge it slanted the H5N1 agenda for NSABB

(CIDRAP News) In a lengthy letter, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) official has rejected recent charges that the agency planned a biased meeting agenda in an effort to induce the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to act as it did in voting for full publication of two much-debated studies on H5N1 virus  Read More »

NIH responds to criticism over handling of flu papers

(Nature.com) The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) today released a response to a sharply worded internal criticism about the handling of two controversial H5N1 avian influenza papers, one of which was published in Nature yesterday. The criticism came from Michael Osterholm, a public-health researcher and member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity  Read More »

Behold The Forbidden Flu: A Loom Explainer

(Discover Magazine) Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a very important part of a very special flu virus. It may look like an ordinary protein, but in fact it’s been at the center of a blazing debate about whether our increasing power to experiment on life could lead to a disaster. Not that long ago,  Read More »

Lab Security Standards Raise Chances of Mutant-Bird-Flu Catastrophe

(Wired News) Fears that bioterrorists could learn from controversial experiments that make H5N1 avian influenza more virulent have overshadowed a more pressing danger: accidental releases, laboratory infections and disgruntled workers. Dozens of all-too-human mistakes have occurred in just the last decade inside high-security laboratories, and many experts say new H5N1 flu strains engineered to infect  Read More »

One H5N1 Paper Finally Goes to Press; Second Greenlighted

(Science Now) They have been called the most famous papers that were never published. But now, one of two controversial studies that shows how to make H5N1 avian influenza more transmissible in mammals is up on Nature’s Web site for all the world to scrutinize—including, some worry, would-be bioterrorists who might use the information to  Read More »

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