Biosecurity board backs H5N1 publications after US imposes stricter rules
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
A day after the US government put stronger oversight policies in place governing life sciences research whose use could be misapplied for harmful and threatening purposes, a federal biosecurity advisory board backed publication of two revised manuscripts describing a genetically-modified form of the H5N1 avian flu virus, which has been found to be highly transmissible in ferrets.