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Majority of US Schools Not Ready for Next Pandemic, Researchers Say

(Science Daily) Many U.S. schools are not prepared for bioterrorism attacks, outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases or pandemics, despite the recent 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic that resulted in more than 18,000 deaths worldwide, Saint Louis University researchers say. The study, led by Terri Rebmann, Ph.D., associate professor at SLU’s Institute for Biosecurity, surveyed about 2000 Read More »

September 17, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
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Drug to resist anthrax threat

(Deccan Chronicle) With anthrax emerging as the favourite biological warfare weapon, a team of researchers from Guntur district has found that the deadly super bacterium can be tackled by attacking its genetic material and protein molecules. Researchers from the department of biotechnology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, have adapted a novel strategy to beat anthrax, which is Read More »

September 17, 2012
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Managing Risks That Endanger Health – Huffington Post

Managing Risks That Endanger HealthHuffington PostIn the lead-off editorial of this week's Science, Nobel Laureate Paul Berg drew new attention to the importance of minimizing the likelihood of accidental or malicious release of dangerous pathogens from high biosafety level laboratories, citing our …

September 17, 2012
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Biohacking Healthcare

(Forbes) Here’s a fairly new term for the healthcare lexicon – biohacking. Wikipedia files their entry under the single category of human biology. The entry itself is very brief and, at least according to Wikipedia, there are two meanings: the art of managing one’s own biology using a combination of medical, nutritional, electronic, and Quantified Read More »

September 14, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Public Health, and Research
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California Cantaloupes Recalled Over Salmonella Test

(Food Safety News) As many as one-half million California-grown cantaloupes were recalled Thursday “out of an abundance of caution” by Fresno-based DFI Marketing Inc. Most have likely already been consumed without any illnesses being associated with them. But a single sample in a test by USDA’ Microbiological Data Program (MDP) did come back positive for Read More »