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Nature Medicine 14, 893 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0908-893

Bioterror experts split on recommendations for 'dual use' research

Charlotte Schubert1

  1. Washington, DC

Last year when the grant administrator at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) first read the research proposal on the virus that causes dengue fever, he was troubled. An investigator at Duke University in North Carolina was seeking to engineer the mosquito-borne virus to grow in fruit flies.

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