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Research on anthrax vaccine on to counteract threat of bioterrorism

(Domain-B) Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast are aiming to help counteract the threat of bioterrorism by undertaking new research to develop a vaccine against anthrax. Dr Rebecca Ingram from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s is working with scientists from Cardiff University, the Republic of Georgia, Turkey and the USA in  Read More »

U.S. Says Opportunity Missed on Enhancing Biowarfare Pact Activities

(Global Security Newswire) The United States on Monday said an opportunity had been missed “to do something new” during a recent review conference on the Biological Weapons Convention, “reflecting … concern about the lack of a verification mechanism,” according to a press release from the U.N. First Committee. The BWC accord prohibits the production, stockpiling  Read More »

Washington Plans Global Meeting on Weapon-Sensitive Biological Studies

(Global Security Newswire) The United States intends before January to convene a global gathering aimed at addressing questions over biological research with potential for misuse, the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases wrote in a commentary published last week by mBio. The planned conference would seek to establish a justification  Read More »

Race-specific Bio-weapon Similar to SARS in the Making

(Device Magazine) Though the world has stopped discussing about the SARS disease these days, it is still a horrible memory. Many have died of this horrible disease and the latest news suggests that a disease similar to SARS is likely to be used as a bio-weapon. The most significant fact about this is that the  Read More »

DTRA Seeks Next Generation Sequencing for Biothreat Agents

(Global Biodefense) The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has issued a Request for Information to identify sources with the capability to amplify, sequence, and assemble sequence data for biothreat agents into high-quality genomes. The Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) effort is specifically looking to identify sources that can perform these pathogen characterization tasks for a large  Read More »

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