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One of 2 remaining types of polio may be wiped out

(TheCanadianPress) The effort to rid the world of polio is too often a journey of one step forward and two steps back, with the heartbreaking news that polio is crippling toddlers in war-ravaged Syria the most recent evidence of that stuttering progress. Still, there is some good news on the polio front. Sunday marks one  Read More »

Closer to vaccine against C. difficile

(ScienceDaily) A group of leading scientists from across Europe have launched a three-year project aimed at developing an oral vaccine against Clostridium difficile, an infection that kills around 4,000 people a year (almost four-times more than MRSA) and for which there is currently no effective treatments.

New molecular target for malaria control identified

(Eurekalert) A new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and University of Perugia (UNIPG) researchers has shown that egg development in the mosquito species primarily responsible for spreading malaria depends on a switch in the female that is turned on by a male hormone delivered during sex. Blocking the activation of this  Read More »

New case of anthrax reported in Armenia

(ARKANewsAgency) A patient diagnosed to have the cutaneous (skin) anthrax was admitted to Yerevan’s Nork hospital specializing in treatment of infectious diseases on Saturday, the health ministry said. It said the preliminary diagnosis was confirmed by laboratory tests.

Policing the New Scientific Frontier of Synthetic Biology

(ForeignAffairs) Ongoing research and discoveries in the life sciences — the latest and most promising involving synthetic biology — have led to extraordinary advances that will benefit society. But criminals and terrorists could manipulate such advances to disrupt public safety and national security. Since its founding in 1923, Interpol has learned that the most effective  Read More »

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