March 13, 2009
Universities Seek 'Sensible' Balance in Federal Oversight of Toxins in Research
Washington
Federal inspections of laboratories handling dangerous biological agents have grown so intense that they may actually harm national security by driving away top-level researchers and discouraging global collaboration, several university experts told lawmakers on Thursday.
“Requirements imposed in the name of security do not equal security,” Gigi Kwik Gronvall, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, said after she and her colleagues visited
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