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$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.

WHO hopes controversial bird flu studies will be published by summer

(Winnipeg Free Press) The moratorium Fukuda refers to is a promise, made by the world’s leading influenza scientists, not to conduct further study for the time being into what might make H5N1 avian flu viruses transmit among mammals — including maybe humans.

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 …

CDC Refuses to Identify “Select Agent” Sites

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. government is not obligated to disclose the names or placement of facilities that manage dangerous disease materials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told activists in Maryland on Tuesday. The United States as of March 1 had 365 sites listed as handling or delivering potentially harmful substances designated  Read More »

Synthetic Biology Brouhaha

(Genetic Engineering News) Earlier this week the environmental group Friends of the Earth released a report entitled “Principles for the Oversight of Synthetic Biology.” Twenty pages long, the report established seven principles “to safeguard public health and the environment …

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