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Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak Tied to Biosecurity Breach

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Third World Biotech: Blood Test for African Sleeping Sickness

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How U.S. Learned the Wrong Health Lessons From 9/11

Ten years after 9/11, the United States is no more safe -- and maybe less safe -- from public health threats, says Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Laurie Garrett.

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Plants Use Body Clocks to Prepare for Battle

Researchers have discovered that while plants might look fairly inactive in the day, they are surreptitiously preparing for battle with hungry insects.

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Controversy Continues After Engineered-Bird-Flu Study Published

After months of controversy, an experiment describing how H5N1 avian influenza can be modified into potentially human-contagious forms was published May 2. The uproar, however, is far from over: Flu...

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Lab Security Standards Raise Chances of Mutant-Bird-Flu Catastrophe

Controversy over H5N1 avian influenza engineered into mammal-infecting form raises fears of flu research in bioterrorist hands, but a more pressing danger has been largely ignored: accidental releases,...

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