As plague researcher's trial begins, leading US scientists condemn the case itself and its chilling effect

A proposal for a self-policing system to prevent terrorists from learning cutting-edge biotech information puts US life scientists face-to-face with the prospect that the broad freedoms they've traditionally enjoyed could be constricted. A National Research Council (NRC) committee formally suggested in October that scientists create a voluntary system to review all future American biotechnology experiments.1 Under the proposal, research judged too sensitive would be voluntarily moved into hig

Problems persist at biocontainment research facility on Plum Island

Report urges creation of voluntary review system for all US science with bioterror potential

New York Academy of Sciences criticizes government treatment of plague researcher

AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Jim Watkins  Thomas Butler It's open season on life scientists. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is doggedly determined to prove that Thomas Butler, a researcher and international plague authority at Texas Tech University, is a biocriminal. Ebola investigator Steven J. Hatfill, formerly with the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Disease (USAMRIID), may never recover from the suspicion cast by the FBI's constant surv

Architect of 7-year NIH grant review overhaul will return to research

D.A. Henderson believes FBI conduct will sour relations with US researchers

Funding for non-biodefense medical research will be diverted to pay for anthrax vaccine

Anthrax vaccine standoff could be close to resolution in deal sparing non-biodefense research funds

Scientist warns that pharma industry's castoffs could be source of new chemical weapons

Concern over a vaccine that causes unintended increase in related infections