Incident at Oakland, Calif., children's hospital research lab exposes seven workers

Courtesy of the CDCThe September 11 attacks and five anthrax-related deaths later in the fall of 2001 made it clear that the United States was vunerable to terrorist actions. Those events also caught the nation immediately short of the high-level biocontainment lab space needed to develop antibioweapon vaccines and drug treatments.Since then, the US Congress has approved plans for the National Institutes of Health to spend as much as $500 million on new biosafety space over the next few years,1

taken from apparent inhalation anthrax case

DNA alkylation destroys tumor cells in mice deficient in p53 and BCL-2

Local residents say Boston University BSL-4 lab would be in too densely populated an area

Immunology journal offers response in 2 weeks and uses pay as an incentive for reviewers

Roswell leaves following problems at Florida facility; reasons unrelated to funding issues

Treasury Department says peer review, copyediting of papers from embargoed nations are OK

Says former US VA official was wrong to disapprove grants, improperly spent $1.7 million

Plague researcher weighing options before 2-year sentence at medical center prison begins

Members protest engineering society's actions to comply with US trade embargoes

Plague researcher will also pay more than $50,000 in fines and restitution