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Taming microbes to combat antibiotic resistance
(EurekAlert) With antibiotic resistant infections on the rise and a scarce pipeline of novel drugs to combat them, researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) are pursuing entirely new approaches to meet the challenge of drug-resistant infections by taming microbes rather than killing them. Michael Yeaman, PhD, an Read More »
- February 25, 2014
- | Filed under Agents & Toxins, Biotechnology, Public Health, and Research
Company Creates BioWatch ‘Lab in a Box’
(National Defense) After six years of development, a technology firm says it has created what has been a holy grail for the Department of Homeland Security’s BioWatch program: a laboratory in a box. PositiveID, a Delray Beach, Fla.-based company said its M-BAND — microfluidic bio-agent autonomous networked detector — has the ability to collect and Read More »
- February 18, 2014
- | Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, and Research
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Be Released in Panama This Weekend
(Epoch Times) Starting Feb. 15, UK bio-tech company Oxitec will begin releasing genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in Nuevo Chorillo, Panama. It will release 240,000 GM mosquitoes a week. Female Anopheles mosquitoes spread malaria, dengue, and other diseases. The idea is to release male mosquitoes genetically engineered to produce offspring that will die, thus decreasing the Read More »
- February 16, 2014
- | Filed under North America, Biosafety, Biotechnology, and International