Biosecurity Briefing: NRC Com. recommendations from its second review of proposed construction of the Natl. Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL), a National Institutes of Health-funded Biosaftey Level-4 laboratory at Boston University.
Mon, 12 May 2008 15:48:14 GMThttp://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/science_biosecurity/2008-05-09-nrccomcallsnihassessbsl4.html
Biosecurity Briefing: According to the CDC, state health departments reported a total of five cases of laboratory-acquired vaccinia infection to the CDC between 2005-2007. Vaccinia (VACV) is the live virus component of the smallpox vaccine.
Biosecurity Briefing: NIH announced two new steps that the agency will take to address public safety concerns about the National Biocontainment Laboratory located at Boston University Medical Center.
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:39:48 GMThttp://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/science_biosecurity/2008-03-14-nihentitiesbostonbiolab.html
Biosecurity Briefing: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study describing the generation of a new research strain of Ebola virus which would be "safe" to handle "outside of a biosafety level-4 facility."
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:56:30 GMThttp://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/agents_diseases/vhf/2008-01-25-ebolasafelaboratories.html
Biosecurity Briefing: The National Academies released Technical Input on the NIH risk analysis for a proposed biocontainment lab at Boston Univ. The document notes that the risk analysis for the Boston lab was "not sound and credible."
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:04:44 GMThttp://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/science_biosecurity/content/2007-11-30-natlacadrprtbostonbsl-4lab.html
Biosecurity Briefing: The U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing addressing the lack of federal oversight of BSL-3 and BSL-4 lab facilities, where research is conducted on some of the most dangerous pathogens.
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:51:02 GMThttp://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/govt_response/content/2007-10-05-ushousehearingbiosafetylabs.html
Biosecurity Briefing: CDC issued a federal report in the form of a letter reprimanding Texas A&M University for lab safety failures and continuing the suspension of high containment research until the university rectifies the problems identified.
Biosecurity Briefing: The British government's Health and Safety Executive released a report on preliminary investigation into recent foot and mouth disease outbreak among cattle in the United Kingdom indicating virus from nearby laboratory.
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:38:19 GMThttp://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/science_biosecurity/content/2007-08-10-ukfootmouthoutbreakraisesconcernlab.html
Biosecurity Briefing: According to the Dallas News, the U.S. CDC suspended all select agent research at Texas A&M University due to the university's failure to report two human exposures to dangerous biological agents in 2006.
Biosecurity Briefing: The South East Regional Center of Excellence for Emerging Infections and Biodefense (SERCEB) published an article in Science describing its experiences over the past 3 years in reviewing dual-use life science experiments.
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:31:38 GMThttp://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/science_biosecurity/content/2007-06-15-examresearchexpdualuserev.html
Biosecurity Briefing: Researchers have published results from a study in which they altered the DNA of the bacterium Listeria moncytogenes to render it capable of infecting mice.
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:28:59 GMThttp://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/biosecurity_briefing/archive/science_biosecurity/content/2007-06-01-wgeneticalterationlysteriainfectmice.html
