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The committee responsible for providing feedback on containment labs at Fort Detrick has concerns about the transparency of information the Army base provides to the committee.
“While the US is solely focused on Chinese labs, the US seldom pays attention to the fault in its own domestic labs, some of which have even triggered virus-related accidents before. According to an August 2020 article by ProPublica, an independent newsroom that produces investigative journalism, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported 28 lab incidents involving genetically engineered organisms to safety officials at the National Institutes of Health between January 2015 and June 2020. “Six of the incidents involved various types of lab-created coronaviruses,” ProPublic...
Advertisement Biologics Researchers and Suppliers Beware: International Exchange of Non-pathogenic Research Materials Including Common VSV-G Packaging Plasmids May Trigger Export Penalties Thursday, February 4, 2021 What happened? On February 1, the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a settlement with Princeton University, which BIS alleged exported animal pathogens and genetic elements of animal pathogens without required export licenses to researchers in the U.K., Canada, Australia, Europe, South Korea, India, Singapore, and China. Although Pri...