U.S. Needs a New Approach for Governance of Risky Research, Stanford Scholars Say
"We've got an increasing number of unusually risky experiments, and we need to be more thoughtful and deliberate in how we oversee this work."
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New Proposal Ignites Old Fears Over Bird Flu Research
Concern over research involving the creation of bird flu that spreads more easily is in the news again. An international group of scientists published an outline Aug. 6 in Science and Nature for similar experiments that could involve even stronger strains of the type of bird flu known as H7N9.