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Are You Prepared to Face Terror and Disaster?

(Newswise) How would you react to a natural disaster or bioterrorism? Two noted emergency medicine and bioterrorism experts from the Center for BioDefense at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) offer tips to educate both first responders and the general public on best practices for responding to Read More »

October 12, 2012
| Filed under North America, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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A Cup Of Tea To Battle Terrorism

(Personal Liberty) New research indicates that a powerful weapon in the fight against bioterrorism could be a simple cup of tea. The favorite English beverage has shown in studies the ability to kill certain deadly microorganisms and deactivate toxins. According to Dr. Simon Richardson, senior lecturer in Biopharmaceutical Sciences at the British University of Greenwich’s Read More »

October 11, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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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 »

October 2, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, and Research
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The Military Is Building Integrated Hybrid Living-Nonliving Robotic Organisms

(Business Insider) In a request released Sept. 14 of this year, the Office Of Naval Research sought to find proposals for “Synthetic Biology Tools for Sensing and Bioprocessing” — essentially hybrid, organic inorganic “sensing” robots. But the language can be deceiving. Googling the first three words — synthetic biology tools — yields research in the Read More »

October 1, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Emergency responders train for worst case scenarios at Togus class

(Kennebec Journal) The exercise at VA Maine Healthcare System-Togus imagined dozens of fatalities and injuries from two explosions, including one from a bomb laced with anthrax. It was designed to hone coordination skills between federal, municipal and private agencies, said Maine VA Medical Center spokesman James Doherty. “You hope something never happens, but you want Read More »