There’s not many similarities between New York and Texas, except maybe when it comes to disease labs used to study pathogens that could wipe out the human race. Like the virus farm on Plum Island, the Lone Star State will soon boast a fully operational, dangerous bio lab on a vulnerable barrier island close to mainland populations too. Located in hurricane prone Galveston, which seems like the last place you’d want one of these, the facilities at the University of Texas will be housed in a new $174 million dollar building that Dr. James LeDuc claims is indestructible, “The entire island can wash away and this is still going to be here.” Somehow that doesn’t sound too scientific. |NYT|