{"id":55628,"date":"2026-06-29T23:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/porton-down-gets-580m-to-work-on-dealing-with-biological-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:55:37","slug":"porton-down-gets-580m-to-work-on-dealing-with-biological-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/porton-down-gets-580m-to-work-on-dealing-with-biological-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Porton Down gets \u00a3580m to work on dealing with biological threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jarvis added: &#8220;Our scientists and experts working at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory [Dstl] do so much, often unseen, to keep our country and our allies safe at this increasingly dangerous and unpredictable time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Hollinshead,  Dstl chief executive, said: &#8220;This investment reinforces the essential work delivered daily by Dstl to protect the UK Armed Forces and defend the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As part of a broader infrastructure programme at Dstl, this new laboratory will strengthen our capacity to stay ahead of evolving biological threats and maintain the UK&#8217;s leading edge in defence and security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c80212vpl0po?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jarvis added: &#8220;Our scientists and experts working at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory [Dstl] do so much, often unseen, to keep our country and our allies safe at this increasingly dangerous and unpredictable time.&#8221; Paul Hollinshead, Dstl chief executive, said: &#8220;This investment reinforces the essential work delivered daily by Dstl to protect the UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[15748,11188,328,15747,5083,81],"class_list":["post-55628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-580m","tag-biological","tag-dealing","tag-porton","tag-threats","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55630,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55628\/revisions\/55630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}