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Research Center Accused of Lax Attitude Toward Synthetic Biology Risks

(Global Security Newswire) Berkeley anthropology professor and biosafety expert Paul Rabinow had been employed for half a decade to make protection and readiness recommendations for the coalition of laboratories. Rabinow tendered his resignation in July and has accused the …

Immunocompetence of FMD-infected cattle

(Dairy Herd Management) BioMed Central has available a new paper on the immunocompetence of cattle infected with foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV). Research by Windsor, et al, showed that infection of cattle with foot-and-mouth disease virus results in the development of …

Lab Fight Raises US Security Issues

(New York Times) Synthetic biology — which includes the development of fuels, organ tissue and tumor-destroying bacteria — became a focus of government and law enforcement agencies after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that quickly followed it. …

New questions about FBI anthrax inquiry deserve scrutiny

(Washington Post) BRUCE E. IVINS has been dead for three years, but questions still abound about whether he carried out the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and seriously sickened 17 others. The FBI compiled what appeared to be an overwhelming case against …

Postal workers mark 10 years since anthrax attacks

(Washington Post) Postal workers mark 10 years since anthrax attacksWashington Post (blog)By Ed O'Keefe Postal employees Thomas Morris Jr., left, and Joseph Curseen Jr., right, died in Oct. 2001 from exposure to anthrax. Employees of the US Postal Service plan to mark the 10th anniversary of the anthrax mail attacks and the deaths of two  Read More »

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