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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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Dangerous Acquaintances

(Huffington Post) Experiments to make some of the world’s deadliest viruses more contagious to humans or to learn the secrets of those that already are contagious surge to the top of the news and slip downward with regularity. Now they are up again. This time it is work with the H5N1 avian flu virus, in Read More »

December 1, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, Biotechnology, and Research
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Animal Biotechnology – Technologies, Markets and Companies – PR Newswire (press release)

Animal Biotechnology – Technologies, Markets and CompaniesPR Newswire (press release)There is discussion of in vitro meat production by culture Biotechnology has potential applications in the management of several animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever, avian flu and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. …and more »

November 30, 2011
| Filed under Biotechnology
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New compound defeats drug-resistant bacteria

(Brown University) Chemists at Brown University have synthesized a new compound that makes drug-resistant bacteria susceptible again to antibiotics. The compound — BU-005 — blocks pumps that a bacterium employs to expel an antibacterial agent called chloramphenicol. The team used a new and highly efficient method for the synthesis of BU-005 and other C-capped dipetptides. Read More »

November 29, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Public Health, and Research
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Okla. Lawmakers Want To Ban Biofuel Plant

(KOCO Oklahoma City) The beans are a promising biofuel crop but they are also the source of a deadly poison — ricin. Four men in Georgia were arrested this month on terrorism charges related to the toxin. The Tulsa World reports Oklahoma state Sen. Mike Schulz, R-Altus, …