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Questions Persist Over Biodefense Board’s Review of Bird Flu Research

(Global Security Newswire) A U.S. biodefense panel’s 2011 recommendation to withhold certain details from two avian influenza virus studies and its subsequent reversal of that call have prompted questions among participants and other experts over the board’s readiness to advise on future research with possible biological weapons applications, the journal Nature reported last week.

May 31, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biological Weapons, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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New Plan To Increase Global Access To Vaccines Endorsed By World Health Assembly

(Medical News Today) Ministers of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly have endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities…

May 30, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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USDA Provides $332411 to Guam for Pest, Plant Disease Management

(Pacific News Center) Guam – Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo has announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided $332,411 to Guam for plant health management and the prevention of pests and spread of plant diseases. This funding includes $221,607 for coconut Rhinoceros Beetle Eradication, and $110,804 for the Customs Biosecurity Initiative.

May 28, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Agriculture, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Science Journal Produces a Different Kind of Viral Video

(MIT Technology Review) The world’s first peer-reviewed video journal gives scientists a better way to show others how to replicate experiments. If a photo is worth a thousand words, imagine the understanding that can be captured from 10 minutes at 30 frames per second. A scientific journal dedicated to video—a medium seldom seen in peer-reviewed Read More »

May 28, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biotechnology, International, and Research
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Neurosecurity and the Ethics of Military Cognitive Enhancement

(Science Progress) Is it ethical or legal to dose detainees with oxytocin, the naturally occurring “love chemical,” to enhance interrogation? What about giving soldiers drugs intended to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder? Should external electrical stimulation be used to help warfighters learn their jobs more quickly? And what if it turns out that certain genes that Read More »