Nature, Oct. 22, 2008 The current issue of this international journal commends UTMB's new research complex and the staff that secured it: "On 11 November, U.S. officials will dedicate a new research complex containing high-containment labs for deadly pathogens: the $175 million Galveston National Laboratory in Texas. Yet even as questions arise over the safety of other biosecurity research facilities, the cornerstone of the new complex survived its biggest test yet: Hurricane Ike, which devastated Galveston Island last month, left the new biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) lab intact. ... [A] sterling effort meant that staff moved dozens of freezers of samples to safety. No infectious agents were released, almost all frozen specimens were saved and highly sensitive colonies of exotic animals were unharmed." The article quotes UTMB Drs. C.J. Peters, Stan Lemon and Scott Weaver.