[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2006.51 - 19.01 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2006.51#26313 22-Dec-2006 [ Your Message ] Season's Greetings! To all our readers, contributors, and friends! Agency Set Up To Tackle Bioterror, Nature Excerpts: Last minute deals in Congress push through biodefence bill and give cash boost to NIH. In a late-night flurry of activity as it rushed to adjourn, the US Congress last week created a new agency that will allocate $1 billion to companies that are developing drugs and vaccines to tackle bioterror and pandemic agents. Bleary-eyed lawmakers also passed legislation governing the broad workings of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and authorizing a hefty budget boost for the biomedical agency over the next two years. Source: Agency Set Up To Tackle Bioterror[ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7121/full/444796a.html ], Meredith Wadman, DOI: 10.1038/444796a, Nature 444, 796-797, 06/12/14 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=26313