U. of Texas Medical Branch Cites National Security in Denying Request for Data

A squabble over access to scientific information in an era of increased security has broken out between the University of Texas Medical Branch, in Galveston, and the Sunshine Project, a nonprofit group that monitors biological weapons.

The group requested the minutes of the university's biosafety-committee meetings as well as information on its applications for two bioterrorism-research grants from the National Institutes of Health. But the university said the requests ran afoul of

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