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Virus ‘barcodes’ offer rapid detection of mutated strains

(University of Leeds) Dr Julian Hiscox and Dr John Barr of the University’s Faculty of Biological Sciences are working with the Health Protection Agency Porton (HPA) to build a bank of molecular signatures that will help identify the severity of virus infection from characteristic changes seen in cells. Currently the team is barcoding different strains Read More »

May 14, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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Hamilton lab to manufacture Ebola vaccine

(Guelph Mercury) An Ebola vaccine will soon be manufactured in Hamilton as researchers prepare to test it in humans. The vaccine to protect against the severe and often deadly viral hemorrhagic fever was created at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory, which has the highest security in Canada.

May 14, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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South Korea Announces Biodefense Exercise

(Global Security Newswire) South Korea said on Friday it would collaborate with the United States in an exercise next week aimed at assessing their capacity to respond to intentional or natural disease outbreaks, Kyodo News reported. Roughly 190 individuals representing 50 U.S. and South Korean government organizations are due to participate in the four-day “Able Read More »

May 11, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Advanced genetic screening method may speed vaccine development

(ScienceDaily) Vaccines remain the best line of defense against deadly pathogens and now Kathryn Sykes and Stephen Johnston, researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, along with co-author Michael McGuire from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center are using clever functional screening methods to attempt to speed new vaccines into production that are both Read More »

May 10, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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Navy Seeks Advanced Diagnostics for Field-Based Biosurveillance

(Global Biodefense) The Naval Research Laboratory has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for advanced technology development of mature in vitro diagnostic devices that are amenable to military hardening and integration with communication capabilities to support the biosurveillance needs of the US military.