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2 Sep 2010Earlier this week, the Biosecurity Research Symposium was held in Kansas City. As part of the conference, the work of the NBAF and the Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI) at K-State was highlighted. One of the reasons that Manhattan is such a good fit for the NBAF is because of the work that has already begun [...]
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24 Aug 2010Kansas State University has long been recognized for its expertise in zoonotic, emerging, and reemerging infectious diseases and livestock medicine. Evidence of this expertise includes the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center and the newly built Biosecurity Research Institute (BRI), which is the nation’s most modern BSL-3 agricultural facility of its kind. The BRI is a 113,000 [...]
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16 Aug 2010Check out this article to learn more about why Manhattan and K-State were chosen for NBAF.
Here are a couple of highlights:
Porcine circovirus associated diseases cost pig producers around the world hundreds of millions of dollars each year…
“That’s why Kansas State University virologists Dick Hesse and Bob Rowland have been working to create new vaccines to [...]
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10 Aug 2010K-State, who is partnering with NBAF to protect America’s food supply, has a great audio about why the NBAF project is so important.
You can listen to it here.
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6 Aug 2010Even more imminent than the threat of a rogue nuclear attack in the next five years is the threat of an attack by biological weapons, according to the World at Risk report issued late last year by former senators Bob Graham of Florida and Jim Talent of Missouri.
This is a view reinforced by numerous other [...]
Kansas State University has been selected as the future home of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) — once
again highlighting the state’s deep agricultural heritage, bioscience expertise, research infrastructure, world-class animal
health industry, and strong public support.
The $650 million research facility will provide the country with an urgently needed, state-of-the-art lab to protect the food supply and agriculture economy. Kansas is exceptionally well suited to accelerate the achievement of this mission.