Obama FY 2015 budget: $300 million for National Bio- and Agro- Defense Facility (NBAF)
President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget was released today and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would get $60.9 billion in total budget authority. $49.0 billion in gross discretionary funding, More...
Donald Trump considers buying Plum Island
With the building of the the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas to replace the aging and outdated, six-decade old Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Suffolk County, New York, the More...
A scaled-back ‘Plum Island’ Kansas lab would meet U.S. needs according to NRC report
Public domain photo/Keith Weller A government-backed committee of the National Research Council issued a report Friday saying the United States would have adequate biosecurity protections even if plans for a proposed More...
Transplanting Plum Island to Kansas: is the country’s food supply at risk?
The controversial animal disease research laboratory, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, located on the relatively remote island off the tip of Long Island will be moving to the heartland of America, Manhattan, More...
