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USAMRIID issues RFI to improve information management

(BioPrepWatch) The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Disease issued a formal request for information on Friday for a new laboratory information management system. The LIMS would help the institution to more effectively manage information generated by increasingly advanced scientific equipment. The USAMRIID identified critical capability shortfalls in how it manages high content data  Read More »

Engineered bacteria can make the ultimate sacrifice

(Science Codex) Scientists have engineered bacteria that are capable of sacrificing themselves for the good of the bacterial population. These altruistically inclined bacteria, which are described online in the journal Molecular Systems Biology, can be used to demonstrate the conditions where programmed cell death becomes a distinct advantage for the survival of the bacterial population.

No risk from composting infected chickens

(ABC News) Biosecurity officials say there is no risk stemming from composting tens of thousands of chickens culled after a bird flu outbreak in the Hunter Valley. 50,000 hens have been destroyed after the H-7 strain of Avian Influenza was detected in hens on a farm near Maitland last week. The animals will be composted  Read More »

A Single Dose of Medicago’s H5N1 VLP Vaccine Protects Against Additional Pandemic Flu Strains in a Preclinical Study

(Market Watch) Medicago Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), today announced results from an independent preclinical study on the cross-protection effects of Medicago’s H5N1 VLP vaccine candidate (“H5N1 VLP vaccine”). The study was conducted under the National Institute of Allergy  Read More »

FDA Panel OKs Bird Flu Vaccine Stockpiling

(770kkob) A vaccine for the H5N1 avian flu, or bird flu, has been approved by a panel of experts to be stockpiled for emergency use in case of a pandemic. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 14-0 in favor that the vaccine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Quebec, was in compliance with  Read More »

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