Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics
On May 25, 2023, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, a biosafety level 4 lab, proudly opened its doors in Manhattan, Kansas.

On May 25, 2023, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, a biosafety level 4 lab, proudly opened its doors in Manhattan, Kansas.

We are currently at a crossroads: The underlying issues of speciesism and the anthropocentric bias of law are increasingly contested.

Researchers and clinicians alike see the potential for genetically modified animal organs to serve as a solution to our organ transplant and supply issues.

Event Description To help kick off Antibiotic Awareness Week, please join us for this panel event that will explore how research, collaboration, and policy can encourage better antibiotic stewardship in animal agriculture and human health care. COVID-19 may not be the only pandemic of our lifetime. For decades, scientists have warned that bacteria are getting…

Despite being curable, and eliminated from most developed countries, malaria is the fifth deadliest infectious disease in the world. Gene drives could change that. Let’s give it a try.

By Yusuf Lenfest With few exceptions, most cultures put homo sapiens at the center or the apex of creation. Humans, it is generally believed, are distinguished from other animals by our self-awareness and our ability to use tools, to think, reason, and construct meaning and representations about life. The Abrahamic religious traditions are most notable…
Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States January 26, 2018 Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Please join the ILAR Roundtable, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School for a one-day meeting to…
Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States January 26, 2018 Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Please join the ILAR Roundtable, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School for a one-day meeting to…
Future Directions for Laboratory Animal Law in the United States January 26, 2018 Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Please join the ILAR Roundtable, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School for a one-day meeting to…