NIH Blue Ribbon Panel On the BU Biolab Roxbury Center for the Arts (184 Dudley St) 6:30 - 9:30 pm Boston University's planned National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories will be the subject of an NIH Blue Ribbon Panel tonight. The proposed National Biocontainment Laboratory is intended to study infectious diseases that may pose threats to our health and security. The labs have been under construction and review for some time, and have been protested by......

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South End residents who are bracing for the opening of the BU Biolab, where scary germs like ebola will be studied, have a reprieve. The "National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories" was supposed to open in the fall, but the National Institutes of Health has declared that its review won't be finished until "on or before" April 2009, the Globe reports. A panel had criticized the NIH in the past, saying its reviews of the Biolab......

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