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