October 24, 2003

Sun Won't Shine on Biosafety Documents at U. of Texas Medical Branch

The University of Texas Medical Branch will not have to turn over documents from its Institutional Biosafety Committee to the Sunshine Project, a watchdog group that monitors the proliferation of biological weapons.

This month the state's attorney general, Greg Abbott, rejected the group's public-information request to review the documents.

The Galveston institution recently won a $110-million National Institutes of Health grant to build a highly secure biocontainment