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Bioweapons Pact Members to Discuss Attack Response

Signatories to the Biological Weapons Convention are set to meet next week in Geneva, Switzerland, for an annual meeting expected to focus on providing aid and coordinating with outside agencies in the event of a biological weapons incident, according to a United Nations press release (see GSN, Nov. 29). During the five-day gathering, BWC member  Read More »

E. coli Outbreak in Connecticut Caused By Raw Milk Consumption

(Infectious Diseases Society of America) In a recent study in Clinical Infectious Diseases, investigators describe a 2008 E. coli outbreak associated with consuming raw milk from the same farm, despite the farm’s adherence to regulatory standards.

University of Washington Students Create Anthrax Destroying Protein

Students from the University of Washington took home a first-place prize from an international genetic engineering competition for developing an anthrax destroying protein and engineering a type of E. coli that targets harmful bacteria. The team of undergraduates, led by doctorate students and faculty advisers, chose to engineer microbes with the intent of developing a  Read More »

NIH Study Suggests Early Detection Is Possible For Prion Diseases

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A fast test to diagnose fatal brain conditions such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans could be on the horizon, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health scientists. Researchers at NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have developed  Read More »

New prion discovery reveals drug target for mad cow disease and related illnesses

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) The joy of a juicy hamburger could make a comeback thanks a new discovery by scientists from the University of Kentucky. In a new research report in the December 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists found that a protein our body uses to break up blood  Read More »

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