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Nature 415, 821 (21 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/415821a

Biologists apprehensive over US moves to censor information flow

Erika Check

Fears are growing among biologists that the US government will impose new restrictions on the publication of scientific research.Such a move has looked increasingly likely in the aftermath of last autumn's bioterrorism attacks in the United States (see Nature 414, 237; 2001).