Abstract

Eighteen of 29 applicant sites are still in the running for a new $450 million high-security agro-biodefense lab to replace Plum Island Animal Disease Center, the aging facility off Long Island, New York ( Science , 2 September 2005, [p. 1475][1]). The Department of Homeland Security is funding the National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility to study animal diseases and possibly human illnesses. It plans to name a second round of finalists by the end of this year and choose a winner in early 2008. [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.309.5740.1475a

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