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Fearing weaponized H5N1, U.S. security officials move to censor research
A panel of U.S. biosecurity officials is asking investigators to keep some of their new research on bird flu under wraps, fearing that terrorists could use the information on the infectious disease
Feds' $1B antiterror drug development program yields little
The U.S. government has been given an expensive lesson on just how frustrating new drug research can be. Over the past five years the feds invested a billion dollars in new programs to find and
New bioterror lab will target infectious disease therapies
A new, $50 million biomedical research lab has been completed at George Mason University near Washington D.C. and is being ramped up to study new therapies for infectious diseases--including a range
$50B bioterror program delivers marginal gains
Seven years and more than $50 billion after 9/11, biosecurity experts say the U.S. still has made only marginal progress developing the security measures and new therapeutics needed to protect the
