The Obama administration is tightening oversight of high-stakes scientific research involving dangerous germs that could raise biosecurity concerns, imposing new safety rules on universities and other institutions where such work is done. Universities have been expecting the rules since last year, and depending on how much research they do, evaluating what meets the criteria “can be a lot more work,” said Rebecca Moritz, manager of select-agent research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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