For the New Yorker, Elizabeth Eaves reports on a risky decision: relocating a major high-containment government biosafety lab from an isolated island to the middle of Kansas. We’re building more labs to study new pathogens, writes Elisabeth in the piece produced with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Can we do so without raising the likelihood of a catastrophic breach? See more @ElisabethEaves or www.elisabetheaves.com/journalism image: NIAID
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