New guidelines announced for risky research

Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceUS government officials have passed two more checkpoints on the long, winding road towards a policy for dealing with risky research. That journey was forced into overdrive at the end of 2011  when a government body recommended against publishing two studies showing how a deadly form of avian influenza H5N1 could be made to pass between mammals.  Read more