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Dr. Ian Lipkin Addresses Concerns over Potentially Hazardous H5N1 Influenza Research

(Health Canal) Last year, two independent research groups bred new strains of H5N1 influenza with enhanced transmissibility in mammals. In nature, the global lethality of H5N1—kills nearly 60% of cases—is curbed only by its inability to easily spread from person-to-person. With biosafety concerns raised over the possible release of these H5N1 strains, via accident or  Read More »

AgroTerrorism Drill Prepares Area Emergency Responders

(St Joe Channel) A scenario played out across northwest Missouri Thursday depicting a disaster that could put our food supply in jeopardy. The planned event was part of an Argoterrorism drill that brought the threat to life in farm communities across the area. A mock-exercise helped prepare first responders on how to handle a real  Read More »

Mother Nature, Version 2.0

(Wall Street Journal) It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we call the science of genomics. But the real opportunities lie in our ability to write DNA, to synthesize new gene sequences and insert them into organisms, resulting in  Read More »

Engineered NASA microbes could build bricks on Mars

(Open Minds) Dr. Lynn Rothschild spoke about synthetic biology at the BioDesign Forum that took place on September 26 and 27 in Cambridge, UK. Rothschild, who is an evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, is involved with NASA’s new Synthetic Biology Initiative. TreeHugger.com reports that this initiative aims to engineer microbes “that  Read More »

Are You Prepared to Face Terror and Disaster?

(Newswise) How would you react to a natural disaster or bioterrorism? Two noted emergency medicine and bioterrorism experts from the Center for BioDefense at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) offer tips to educate both first responders and the general public on best practices for responding to  Read More »

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