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Princeton company working on new anthrax vaccine

(Newsworks.org) Michael Kurilla, director of biodefense research at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said a vaccine that requires fewer injections would make effective treatment easier in a disaster. The vaccine now on the market requires …

Britain on guard against Olympic bio-terror

(The Australian Eye) Five hundred health workers have been vaccinated against smallpox enabling them to deal with any biological terror attack at this year’s Olympics. The move highlights the level of concern within Whitehall over the …

David Hoffman: On biology: promise and peril

(Foreign Policy) We live in an age of breathtaking advances in the life sciences. Achievements in sequencing, or plotting the genetic blueprint of an organism, have been astounding, and may lead to great benefits in public health and medicine. But biological research can be dual-use: that which improves the lot of mankind can also be  Read More »

House, Senate Look to PAHPA Reauthorization to Stoke Biodefense Initiave

(Genetic Engineering News) The array of federal biodefense programs created in the years after 9/11 is on track to remain in place through federal fiscal year 2018. There will also be some new provisions that officials hope will encourage more development of medical …

The Erosion of U.S. Emergency Preparedness

(Huffington Post) Since September 11 and anthrax, we’ve released the “Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism”; in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Over the past ten years, the report has documented how …

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