A draft of new rules adopted by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, or NSABB, proposes voluntary compliance by scientists, universities and journals to limit publication of life-sciences research that could be misused by terrorists. ...

More than five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the government cannot show how the $5 billion given to public health departments has better prepared the country for a bioterrorism attack or flu pandemic....

Jill Bellamy-Dekker, an American biodefense analyst living in Europe, says if the U.S. invades Iran to halt its nuclear ambitions, Syria is ready to respond with biological weapons, using a variation of smallpox. She referenced an April 2000 arti...

Project BioShield has fallen short of delivering biodefence remedies, with a limited range of pathogens that BioShield is targeting and inadequate plans for deploying the countermeasures it does have. The authorities appear bent on building a stoc...

Project Bioshield, which promised to build national drug stockpiles to be used in case of a bioterror attack, has been put off until at least 2008 -- and maybe later....

The authors of the 2006 report, ''Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of Life Sciences,'' propose a ''web of protection'' that bolsters the development of robust defenses without restricting the free flow of scientific information. Source: ...