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UW steps up bio research safety

UW-Madison has strengthened its once lacking oversight of biological research, such as the bird flu study by Yoshihiro Kawaoka entangled in an international debate over biosafety and bioterrorism. But the university could face more rules recommended nationally for experiments such as Kawaoka?s that are deemed to have potential for good or bad. Campus officials already are guarding information about biological research more closely.