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Speeding Up Diagnosis of Infectious Disease

Current methods of diagnosing an infectious disease can take days to weeks. Now a Cambridge, MA-based startup called Pathogenica is developing a way to do it within a day–by reading the DNA sequence of pathogens. Pathogenica is developing diagnostic tests designed to detect harmful microorganisms by zeroing in on the genes responsible for their harmful Read More »

July 28, 2010
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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Galveston National Lab Ready To Begin Research

In the next few weeks, researchers will move in and begin their work in the Galveston National Laboratory.

July 25, 2010
| Filed under North America and Research
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Researchers Create New Anthrax Detector

A Dutch research site announced last week that its nanotechnology specialists had created an anthrax detector that improves upon all existing systems.The sensor was developed by the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente. It is capable of identifying a biomarker of anthrax spores at levels 1,000 times below the concentration at which Read More »

July 20, 2010
| Filed under Europe, Countermeasures, and Research
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Pentagon Funds Development of Ebola, Marburg Treatments

The U.S. Defense Department last week issued a new contract worth as much as $291 million for advanced work on two possible medical treatments for the Marburg and Ebola viruses.

July 20, 2010
| Filed under North America and Research
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Scientists Devise Strategy in Bid to Beat Viruses

University of Edinburgh – Scientists have developed a new way to target viruses which could increase the effectiveness of antiviral drugs. Instead of attacking the virus itself, the method developed at the University of Edinburgh alters the conditions which viruses need to survive and multiply.