July 13, 2007
Agency Halts Risky Research on Microbes at Texas A&M
Action marks first time Centers for Disease Control has shut down such studies
A federal agency has ordered Texas A&M University at College Station to halt all research on biological-warfare microbes, after the institution failed to report two cases of accidental exposure of laboratory workers.
It is the first time that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shut down all of an institution's research on such microbes since the government greatly expanded
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