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...Very few students are probably inclined to [participate in research with select agents], so the act would be largely symbolic,” Bloom said...
...report advises against having graduate students participate in projects involving select biological toxins, maintaining that they should always be free to publish, share or continue their work. These conditions cannot be guaranteed in certain projects because of post-Sept. 11 legislation...
...acts, which Congress passed in an attempt to stymie future terrorist threats, limited research on so-called “select agents”—a list of more than 30 biological toxins—and imposed restrictions on laboratory practices and the dissemination of certain research findings...
...vast majority of Harvard’s research remains outside the realm of the report’s recommendations on select agents, he said. Bloom said most research on biological toxins involves work only on non-dangerous components...
...There’s an enormous amount of science that does not involve the actual [select agent], whole in a freezer in the lab,” he said...