biolab

Andromeda Strain lab set to begin low-level operations next month

adamg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:58:27 +0000

The Daily Free Press goes on a tour of BU's new South End biolab, which is set to begin work on less-dangerous pathogens next month as it gears up for eventual work on killers such as Ebola. The Free Press describes the measures the lab is taking to keep killer bugs out of our air; conspicuous in their absence: darts set to fire automatically at escaping monkeys and nuclear bombs.

BU biolab could begin some work this fall

adamg — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:06:24 +0000

But initially, only on tuberculosis, not ebola, the Daily Free Press reports.

You wouldn't think zombies would be opposed to deadly pathogens

adamg — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:38:12 +0000

But apparently they are, as a group of them protested the BU biolab at BU.

Strong supporter of BU biolab now runs for city council against it

adamg — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:26:07 +0000

The Daily Free Press reports on the change of heart by at-large City Council candidate Ego Ezedi, who once told opponents the lab would be built whether they liked it or not, but who now says he opposes it because of safety concerns.

Third Decade, who always opposed the project, is annoyed:

... It's changes of position (and tepid acknowledgment of those changes) like this that make me skeptical of politics and politicians in general. OK, so now you're opposed to the biolab...kind of. What's next? What do you propose as a solution for the community which you would like to elect you to office? If elected, how do we know that you won't change position again? ...

Crazy people need not apply to work with World's Deadliest Pathogens

adamg — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:28:40 +0000

Boston University assures us they won't let anybody with psychological problems work at its new South End biolab.

If they're calling me, it must be important

adamg — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:00:46 +0000

Did anybody in Boston not get a call last night from the National Institutes of Health about a hearing on BU's Deadliest Things Alive project in the South End?

Just in case, it's on Oct. 14, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley St.