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MANHATTAN, Kan. — It started with a purple book. It continues with a purple connection to the Bipartisan Policy Center. From agriculture to animal health, Kansas State University has been leading the national discussion in bio/agrodefense since it published...

In early 2002, United States Navy SEAL Team 3 stormed a cluster of caves in eastern Afghanistan. It was a known Al Qaeda storehouse; they expected guns, explosives, maybe even Osama bin Laden. Instead, the team found documents, hundreds of them, all...

Some of the biggest threats to national security come from enemies that cannot be easily contained inside of geographic borders. These threats take the forms of highly contagious epidemic diseases called transboundary animal diseases, also known as TADs...

Wheat blast, an emerging disease that threatens worldwide food security, is the focus of a plant biosecurity course at Kansas State University's Biosecurity Research Institute.

Biosecurity Research Institute biosafety officer Julie Johnson likes to think of BRI safety as an onion: it has layers of precautions that keep the facility safe and secure. From lab construction and staff training to safety procedures, these layers...