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NIH Funds Advanced Development of 3 Biodefense Vaccines

NIH funds advanced development of 3 biodefense vaccinesWebnewswire.com (press release)… says Michael G. Kurilla, MD, Ph.D., director of the Office of Biodefense Research Affairs in NIAIDs Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. …

October 10, 2010
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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McCleary & Medish: Time To Take Biodefense Seriously

Washington TimesMCCLEARY & MEDISH: Time to take biodefense seriouslyWashington TimesJim Talent, Missouri Republican, gave the United States a failing grade on biodefense preparedness. The report also warned that a weapon-of-mass-destruction …

October 7, 2010
| Filed under North America and Research
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Bill Would Establish Global Biosecurity Body

U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) last week introduced a bill aimed at establishing a new international body charged with bolstering global preparations for biological threats, the International Security and Biopolicy Institute announced (see GSN, June 11). The new “International Biosecurity Initiative” would seek to improve biological threat detection and response efforts in other countries through Read More »

October 5, 2010
| Filed under North America and Research
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Twofer for the Biggest Bioterror Threats?

If you ask biodefense experts to name two diseases that keep them awake at night, there’s a good chance they’ll mention smallpox and anthrax. Both are highly lethal, and current vaccines have major problems. Now, researchers have found a way to target both threats at the same time: a candidate vaccine that protects against the Read More »

October 4, 2010
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, and Research
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Livermore Lab to Work on WMD Plume Tracking

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is set to collaborate with the owner of roughly 8,000 U.S. weather tracking posts on a system to assess the movement of potentially lethal materials following a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear strike, the San Francisco Business Times reported yesterday (see GSN, June 30, 2008). Maryland-based AWS Convergence Read More »