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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
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Vaccination decisions and the spread of disease strongly influenced by social norms

(Medical News Today) Our response to societal pressures about vaccination has a direct effect on the spread of pediatric infectious diseases in areas where inoculation is not mandatory, says new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. By incorporating social norms into predictive mathematical modelling, a research team from the University of Guelph Read More »

February 18, 2014
| Filed under Europe, International, Public Health, and Research
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Hours to save the world: New software program aims to stop deadly pandemic spread

(Fox News) It’s a terrifying doomsday scenario: A novel infectious disease is sweeping through the world’s population, and health officials have only a day or two to stop its deadly spread. While this may sound like the plot of a movie thriller, health officials argue that an event of this kind could become a reality Read More »

February 17, 2014
| Filed under Biosafety, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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Powerful Bacterial Immune Response Defined by New Study

(Global Biodefense) T-cells, the elite guard of the immune system in humans and other mammals, ignore normal biologic protocol and swing into high gear when attacked by certain fast-moving bacteria, reports a team of researchers led by a UC Davis immunologist. The description of this immune pathway provides new information vital for designing vaccines and Read More »

February 17, 2014
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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Mechanism of dengue virus entry into cells

(Science Codex) Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus, afflicts millions of people each year, causing fever, headache, muscle and joint pains and a characteristic skin rash. In some people the disease progresses to a severe, often fatal, form known as dengue hemorrhagic fever. Despite its heavy toll, the prevention and Read More »