But Chinese microbiologists are celebrating their entrance to the elite cadre empowered to wrestle with the world’s greatest biological threats. Some scientists outside China worry about pathogens escaping, and the addition of a biological dimension to geopolitical tensions between China and other nations. The move is part of a plan to build between five and seven biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) labs across the Chinese mainland by 2025, and has generated much excitement, as well as some concerns. Hazard suits hang at the National Bio-safety Laboratory, Wuhan, the first lab on the Chinese mainland equipped for the highest level of biocontainment.Ī laboratory in Wuhan is on the cusp of being cleared to work with the world’s most dangerous pathogens. Maximum-security biolab is part of plan to build network of BSL-4 facilities across China. Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens | NATURE
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