1. GOVERNMENT ACTS ON BIOSECURITY.
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SCHULZ, WILLIAM
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LIFE sciences , *AVIAN influenza , *BIOSECURITY ,UNITED States. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity - Abstract
The article reports that U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) issued a policy on monitoring of dual-use life sciences research on March 29, 2012. The dual-use policy states that life sciences studies must be revised to prevent biosecurity worries, where it was made as a response to findings on bird flu mutations and transmissions. The policy and its linked NSABB documents were added on the National Institutes of Health Office of Biotechnology Activities webpage.
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- 2012
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