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Hamilton researchers help make breakthrough on Ebola vaccine

(Billings Gazette) Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Rocky Mountain Labs in Hamilton, working in conjunction with a team in Oregon, have made an important discovery related to a potential Ebola vaccine. Dr. Heinz Feldmann, chief of the Laboratory of Virology at RML, and Andrea Marzi, a staff scientist who designed Read More »

January 22, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Harvard professor looks for ‘adventurous woman’ who agrees to give birth to cloned Neanderthal

(RT) Prehistoric men may soon be walking the earth again. One of the world’s leading geneticists is in search of a female volunteer to give birth to a Neanderthal – a species that went extinct more than 33,000 years ago. Using DNA from Neanderthal bones, Harvard Medical School Professor George Church plans to resurrect the Read More »

January 22, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Research
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Finding On Killer Cells Opens New Avenue For Combating AIDS, Cancer And Other Diseases

(Medical News Today) A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has discovered the mechanism that enables CD4 helper T cells to assume the more aggressive role of killer T cells in mounting an immune attack against viruses, cancerous tumors and other damaged or infected cells. The finding, made in Read More »

January 22, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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FDA approves new seasonal influenza vaccine

(FDA) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has approved Flublok, the first trivalent influenza vaccine made using an insect virus (baculovirus) expression system and recombinant DNA technology. Flublok is approved for the prevention of seasonal influenza in people 18 through 49 years of age. Unlike current flu vaccines, Flublok does not Read More »

January 17, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
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New Way to Test Airborne Pathogen Sensors Slated for BioWatch Program

(National Defense Magazine) The test and evaluation community for the past 70 years has used one method to find out whether sensors designed to detect weaponized pathogens work as advertised. It is not a simple task. One can’t walk out into a field and release live anthrax spores into the air. That would obviously endanger Read More »