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Lockheed Martin gets $66 million to help move USAMRIID

(WTOP) Construction of the 810,000-square-foot building began in August 2009 and cost an estimated $683 million, USAMRIID spokeswoman Caree Vander-Linden said Tuesday. It will include 17,000 square feet of biosafety Level 4 lab space — used to study biohazards including Ebola — and 34,000 square feet of biosafety Level 3 space, where researchers can work Read More »

February 1, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, and Research
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Flu Work Akin to Nuclear-Bomb Experiments, Board Says

(Global Security Newswire) Experts who made an unprecedented recommendation that bird-flu researchers hold back some details of their work justified the controversial decision on Tuesday, saying that the experiments were akin to the 1940s work on nuclear weapons or the first attempts at genetic engineering in the 1970s.

February 1, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Battle over H5N1 research continues in media, journals

(CIDRAP) In another Times letter, Dr. Richard Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Princeton University, said the research on lab-generated transmissible H5N1 viruses should be regulated the same way smallpox virus research is regulated.

February 1, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biosafety, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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NSABB and H5N1 redactions: Biosecurity runs up against scientific endeavor

(American Society for Microbiology) In response to recent actions of the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which recommended that two scientific journals withhold crucial details in upcoming reports about experiments with a novel strain of the bird flu virus, H5N1, the American Society for Microbiology will publish a special series of commentaries by Read More »

February 1, 2012
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Lungs infected with plague bacteria also become playgrounds for other microbes

(University of North Carolina School of Medicine) Researchers led by William E. Goldman, Ph.D. of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine show that the plague bacteria transform the lungs from a nasty place for microbes into a playground for them to flourish.