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Some groups suspicious of BU’s waiver request August 17, 2011 South End News by Kate Vander Wiede Boston University Medical Center is hoping they will soon be able to start research in the National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory (NEIDL) later this year, explained press contact Ellen Berlin. "The laboratory has been built and it was completed... Read the rest of this entry »

Will seek waiver for lesser hazards August 12, 2011 Boston Globe By Carolyn Y. Johnson A controversial Boston University laboratory building that has stood empty since construction finished in 2008 may open this fall to biomedical research involving pathogens less hazardous than those that sparked opposition to the project. BU officials plan to announce today... Read the rest of this entry »

Risk assessment will continue August 12, 2011 BU Today By Art Jahnke Boston University will ask the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs later this month for permission to conduct lower-level biosafety research in its National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), located on the BU Medical Campus in the South End. Construction on... Read the rest of this entry »

November 19, 2010 The Boston Globe By Kay Lazar Globe Staff Government scientists have not adequately assessed the risks to public health from a controversial high-security research laboratory at Boston University, according to a report made public yesterday by a panel of independent scientists. The National Research Council report, the latest in a series... Read the rest of this entry »

November 19, 2010  The Boston Herald By Thomas Grillo  A critical review of the risks associated with a Boston University biodefense lab in the South End is giving opponents more ammunition for killing the project. “We have said all along this is not the place for a biolab,” said Mel King, a South End resident, who... Read the rest of this entry »

South End News by Emily Cataneo MySouthEnd.com Contributor Wednesday Oct 6, 2010 Citizens still displeased with risk assessment studies When community members at the Boston University BioLab Meeting on Tuesday, October 5 stepped up to the microphone, they were not happy. Some were barely civil. Commentator after commentator expressed confusion and suspicion about what the BioLab was... Read the rest of this entry »

South End News by Kate Vander Wiede MySouthEnd.com Contributor Wednesday Aug 25, 2010 Earlier this month, Ronald Killinay, PhD, was appointed director of the Multimodal Whole Animal Imaging Core at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at Boston University. The director for the Center for Biomedical Imaging, Killiany also acts as an associate professor in... Read the rest of this entry »

Safety Net group gives recommendations on Biolab; BU is hopeful they don’t need them South End News by Kate Vander Wiede MySouthEnd.com Contributor Thursday Jul 22, 2010 The Haley House was packed full of attendees as Boston residents vied for a seat in the cramped café and waited for the agenda to start. It was July 19, Read the rest of this entry »

Weather warning system saves lives BU Today July 8, 2010 By Leslie Friday    In April BU became the second university in the state (Harvard is the other) to be certified by the National Weather Service as StormReady, meaning that it has the equipment and systems in place to receive national weather warnings and pass... Read the rest of this entry »

npr.org May 28, 2010 by Richard Knox The Ebola virus first emerged in 1976, striking fear with the uncontrollable bleeding it causes and mortality rates up to 90 percent. Ever since then, scientists have been struggling to find a way to treat the infection or protect against it. There has been progress, but nothing... Read the rest of this entry »