When Boston University first announced the construction of a Level Four Biosafety Lab on the border of Roxbury and Boston's South End in 2002, they had planned to have the lab fully operational by 2005. Now, seven years later, the lab is built and ready to operate, but is at a legal standstill due to years of hard fought struggle by opponents of the lab, who claim that the lab's operations will endanger the lives of those living in the surrounding communities. ---- The Biolab was originally proposed by President George Bush after the September 11th attacks. It is one of two labs proposed, the other is already operating in Texas. The lab would run tests on deadly pathogens, such as ebola, anthrax, plague and many others, earning itself the name "bioterror lab" from its opponents. ...

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