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Scientists to Scour Ocean For Biodefense Material

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a San Diego biotechnology firm have received nearly $30 million in U.S. Defense Department funding to search the ocean floor for bacteria that could be used to produce antibiotics against biological weapons agents, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 20). For the next four Read More »

September 21, 2010
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Medicago awarded $21 million for rapid vaccine development

DARPA is putting money in a burgeoning Accelerated Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals, or AMP, program, which aims to revolutionize current, egg-based vaccine production models, and yield vaccines within three months of “emerging and novel biological threats”

August 19, 2010
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