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Biocontainment Lab Under Construction in Kazakhstan

Published 1/25/2011

A $103 million biocontainment laboratory is under construction in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Supported by funding from the U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the facility will include BSL-2 and BSL-3 research areas for the detection and study of biological threats and pathogens. Construction began on the laboratory in March of 2010.