The United States faces a stark choice between funding a new state-of-the-art laboratory for agricultural biodefense and paying for ongoing research on the topic, according to the government's top biosecu-rity research official. "We are hard up against it now; you can't do research without modern facilities, but the money for modern facilities comes out of the same piggy bank that pays for research," Tara O'Toole, head of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) Science and Technology Directorate, told a new study panel of the U.S. National Academies' National Research Council (NR.C) on 13 April.
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