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Biological Security: The Risk of Dual-Use Research

(Center for Biosecurity of UPMC) Testimony of Thomas Inglesby, MD, Director, Center for Biosecurity of UPMC before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, April 26, 2012. Mr. Chairman, Senator Collins, and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today on the issues related to Biological  Read More »

Live Chat: Too Dangerous to Publish?

(Science Now) Join us each Thursday at 3 p.m. EDT for a live conversation with leading scientists and expert reporters. On Thursday, a U.S. Senate committee will hold a hearing that will explore how the government should regulate dual use research of concern (DURC) that could be used for good and evil. The hearings come  Read More »

New Mad-Cow Discovery Stirs Fears

(The Wall Street Journal) The U.S. Agriculture Department said Tuesday that a California dairy cow tested positive for mad-cow disease, the first appearance of the brain-wasting illness in the U.S. since 2006. Agency officials said the finding didn’t pose any immediate threat to the safety of the food supply. They said no meat from the  Read More »

Instant View: Mad cow disease found in California

(Reuters) The U.S. Agriculture Department confirmed on Tuesday that it found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, the nation’s fourth, in a dairy cow in California. The USDA has begun to notify the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) as well as its trading partners, but the finding should not  Read More »

The Technology Corner: 3 Companies That Could Eradicate Ebola Virus

(OneMedPlace) To the scientific community, the Ebola virus is one of the most noxious pathogens identified to date. To the general population, the virus is dreadful, made especially frightening in pop culture. In addition to a high mortality rate of approximately 70 percent per case (average)1, the health deterioration caused by an Ebola infection is  Read More »

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