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(Business Standard) The team, composed of second-year art and design students, won the Best Human Practice prize, for postulating rules by which engineers can achieve maximal output with proper social responsibility. The project was titled “Searching for the Ubiquitous Genetically Engineered Machines”. The team asked this question: a century in the future, today’s synthetic biology Read More »

December 6, 2011
| Filed under South Asia, Biosafety, Biotechnology, and Research
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Cattle farmers to get a shot in the arm

(Times of India) KOZHIKODE: The Animal Husbandry Department in association with National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is organizing a vaccination programme in an initiative to help cattle farmers, who have been facing the brunt of foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease in cows. The ‘Goraksha’ project will be launched across the district on December 6 under Animal Disease Read More »

December 6, 2011
| Filed under South Asia, Agriculture, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Op-Ed — The International Federation of Biosafety Associations: A Stakeholder in the BTWC

The International Federation of Biosafety Associations (IFBA) is a global community of research scientists, biosafety professionals, laboratory personnel, NGOs, academics and policy makers from around the world who recognize that biosafety and biosecurity are important elements within the framework of biological non-proliferation and strengthening global security. The IFBA’s mission statement (“safe, secure and responsible work Read More »

December 5, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biosafety, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Dealing with advances in science at the Seventh BTWC Review Conference

(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Ahead of the Seventh Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) Review Conference, which will be held December 5-22 in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations published 26 advance papers produced by state parties to inspire serious and spirited discussion for the event — and at least six of these papers focused Read More »

December 2, 2011
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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China prepares for big entry into vaccine market

(The Associated Press) Sinovac is now testing a new vaccine for enterovirus 71, which causes severe hand, foot and mouth disease among children in China and other Asian countries. It is also preparing for clinical trials on a pneumococcal vaccine Yang says could rival …