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Sandia Designs Border Security Training Game

The Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico has developed a video game to aid U.S. border security efforts, including the prevention of smuggling of weapons of mass destruction into the United States, KOAT television reported on Monday (see GSN, Dec. 8, 2009). “We’re concerned about people trying to smuggle nuclear, chemical and biological weapons across  Read More »

African Pathogens Must Be Secured, Lugar Says

A senior U.S. senator highlighted the need to protect deadly pathogen samples housed in African laboratories from hostile actors who might seek to deploy them in a biological attack, Chemical & Engineering News reported on Monday (see GSN, Nov., 23, 2010). During the Cold War, the former Soviet Union conducted research into the biowarfare uses  Read More »

Surveillance at the genetic level: Is it possible? – GCN.com

DARPA is specifically interested in transdiscipline teams with expertise in mathematical disciplines associated with encryption, epigenetics and epigenetic control, genetic control elements, and synthetic biology,” the agency noted in its workshop…

Kent woman charged in White House anthrax hoax – Seattle Post Intelligencer

Kent woman charged in White House anthrax hoaxSeattle Post IntelligencerCOM STAFF A Kent woman has been charged with sending fake “anthrax letters” to the White House and King County government. Filing charges Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Seat…

U.S. Funds Tularemia, Botulism Treatment Research

The Canadian biopharmaceutical firm DiaMedica on Monday said it had entered a deal with the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for continued study of a potential tularemia countermeasure (see GSN, April 5, 2010). The antibody under investigation inhibits a specific protein, a process that “has previously been shown to suppress the lethal  Read More »

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