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Sophia Flissler / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Emerging Boston biotech industries have a responsibility to science — and to their neighbors

Editors November 4, 2021
Given the lack of stringent and uniform federal regulations, Boston's emergent biotech lab industry have the responsibility to ensure they are operating with the safety of their neighbors in mind.

Fed. court approves NIH’s BU biolab risk assessment, paving way for Level 3 research

Daily Free Press Admin October 1, 2013

A Massachusetts federal court ruled Tuesday approving the National Institutes of Health’s risk assessment of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories biolab at Boston University. The...

NEIDL officials to conduct safety drills on June 12

Daily Free Press Admin June 10, 2013

Boston University officials will conduct tests on emergency responses at the National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories on the morning of June 12, officials said. The drill will take place at NEIDL’s...

Protesters oppose biolab as court proceedings continue

Daily Free Press Admin April 11, 2013

Several protesters stood outside the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse Thursday as proceedings continued in a case challenging the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University,...

Biolab receives state approval for controversial research

Daily Free Press Admin March 4, 2013

The Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories gained approval from the Massachusetts state government Friday to begin researching biosafety Level 3 and Level 4 pathogens, officials...

Biolab receives approval from state officials

Daily Free Press Admin March 2, 2013

The Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories gained approval from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Friday to begin researching biosafety Level 3 and Level 4 pathogens, officials...

Reporter’s notebook: tour of the BU Biolab (photos)

Daily Free Press Admin January 25, 2012

By  Eddie Donga, Daily Free Press staff writer I was surprised to find BU’s National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories hidden in plain sight at 620A Albany St. in Roxbury, mostly because I had...

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