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Conservatives launch new probe into Canada’s lab leak scandal: National security failure saw Chinese scientists send Ebola in the mail to Wuhan and spy on top research hub

Members of Canada‘s House of Commons have successfully opened a new investigation into a pair of Chinese scientists who spied for Beijing while they were employed at a microbiology lab in Winnipeg. The scientists were fired after an investigation revealed they had been sharing classified documents and materials from the Winnipeg National Microbiology Laboratory and posed

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Could the next pandemic come from within? America is suffering dozens of lab leaks at dangerous virus hubs every year, ‘startling’ data shows

America suffers a ‘startlingly high’ number of lab leak incidents at its top virus labs every year, data shows — amid calls for centers to slash the number of experiments carried out on diseases that could spark pandemics. Official data reveals more than 600 releases of ‘controlled’ pathogens – which may include anthrax, tuberculosis and

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Are they REALLY taking AI seriously? Biden’s flagship artificial intelligence safety lab is found to be riddled with black mold, pests and a leaky roof

With only a modest $10 million budget to help regulate an industry of billionaires, Biden’s new AI safety lab is now struggling with just the safety of its own facilities.  ‘Chronic underfunding’ of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal lab that will house the new US AI Safety Institute, has produced black mold,

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Inside the lab where killer fungi experts working to stop next global pandemic – after WHO warns four organisms ‘critical’ threats to public health

A team of killer fungi experts are working tirelessly to prevent the next global pandemic as there are at least four organisms deemed ‘critical’ threats. Scientists at Australia’s National Mycological Reference Center (NMRC) are identifying new fungi that have the potential to spread on a global scale, causing mass infection and death because there aren’t antifungal drugs

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