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Published online 30 September 2009 | Nature 461, 577 (2009) | doi:10.1038/461577a
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Booming biosafety labs probed
US lawmakers and scientists at odds over how to regulate high-containment labs.
Researchers are pushing back against moves in the US Congress to regulate more strictly the laboratories that handle the most dangerous pathogens. The scientists argue that adding rules to those already implemented since the anthrax attacks of 2001 could hobble work on countermeasures for killer pathogens, and drive researchers from the field.
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