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Experimental Anthrax Vaccine Shows Three-Year Stability

(PharmAthene) PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PIP) announced today that it has achieved an important program milestone in its recombinant protective antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine program and demonstrated 36 month stability of its rPA drug product candidate previously produced at Avecia Biologics Laboratories in the United Kingdom. The stability data were prepared utilizing a variety of Read More »

July 14, 2011
| Filed under Biotechnology and Countermeasures
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The Download: A roundup of the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention

(Washington Post) The Biotechnology Industry Organization’s annual international convention, held in the District last week, served as the backdrop for several news items of interest to the local biotechnology community. Here’s a roundup:

July 13, 2011
| Filed under North America and Biotechnology
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MicroKit Simplifies Infectious Disease Detection

(Wall Street Journal) Infectious diseases, such as the H1N1 influenza strain, have wrought havoc not only on human populations in recent years but increasingly on critical bits of economic infrastructure such as transport systems and hospitals. Efforts to contain the spread of the viruses are often hampered by the time and complicated processes involved in Read More »

July 13, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Biotechnology, and Countermeasures
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Universal Detection Technology Wins Tender for Biological Weapon Detection Equipment From the Singapore Civil Defense Force

(Press Release) LOS ANGELES, CA-Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies that protect against biological, chemical, and radiological threats, announced today that is has won a tender for Biological Weapon Detection Equipment from the Singapore Civil Defense Force. The tender included equipment for the detection of Anthrax, Ricin, Botulinum, Y. Pestis (Plague) and Read More »

June 29, 2011
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, and Countermeasures
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House Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill Aimed at Preventing WMD Attack

(HS Today) House lawmakers renewed their effort Friday to pass a bill to implement the recommendations of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Commission, which warned that a WMD attack, most likely using biological agents, would likely occur somewhere in the world by 2013 without significant action to prevent it.