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Exploring Options For NBAF

(KCUR) It’s another big week for NBAF, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility under construction in Manhattan, Kan. A panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences will be hearing expert testimony about the animal health lab in three teleconferences, beginning tomorrow. And the project’s future may be at stake because this committee is  Read More »

NIH preparing tool to help labs cope with new DURC policy

(CIDRAP News) Federal officials are working on guidance to help local institutions implement the government’s new policy on the oversight of life-sciences dual-use research of concern (DURC), an official from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said today. Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH,  Read More »

Extended H5N1 Moratorium?

(Scientist) A US science official recommends extending moratorium on bird flu studies as well as other types of risky research. Despite positive recommendations by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) and the US Department of Health and Human Services to publish in full the results of two H5N1 studies that managed to make  Read More »

Action required on influenza research

(The Hill) By John Steinbruner PhD, professor of Public Policy and director, International Security Studies at University of Maryland. The basic features of an appropriate oversight arrangement are evident. Established procedures for peer review of scientific merit would be extended to questions of social consequence and made mandatory. A record of judgment would be recorded  Read More »

Bird Flu Research: Scientists Behind Deadly New H5N1 Strain Granted Right To …

(Huffington Post) The scientist whose research team last year developed a new strain of the H5N1 virus that is easily passed between mammals has been granted an export license for his findings by the Dutch government, according to Science Insider. The license allows Ron Fouchier, the virologist at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam who led  Read More »

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