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Select-agent safety reports find little public health risk

(CIDRAP) The risks in working with potentially dangerous pathogens in US labs are low to the scientists involved as well as to the general public, according to two recent reports on safety incidents. One of the reports details theft, loss, and release (TLR) of select agents and toxins that occurred at US labs from 2004 Read More »

January 23, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Public Health, and Research
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How Do Pathogens Get Into Produce?

Leafy greens, lettuce, cantaloupes, mangoes and strawberries. These are just some of the foods that have sickened or even killed people when they were contaminated with foodborne pathogens such as E. coli, Listeria and Salmonella. Amidst the confusing swirl of information about these and other produce outbreaks, the question arises: Were some of these pathogens inside Read More »

January 23, 2013
| Filed under Research
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Hamilton researchers help make breakthrough on Ebola vaccine

(Billings Gazette) Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Rocky Mountain Labs in Hamilton, working in conjunction with a team in Oregon, have made an important discovery related to a potential Ebola vaccine. Dr. Heinz Feldmann, chief of the Laboratory of Virology at RML, and Andrea Marzi, a staff scientist who designed Read More »

January 22, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Harvard professor looks for ‘adventurous woman’ who agrees to give birth to cloned Neanderthal

(RT) Prehistoric men may soon be walking the earth again. One of the world’s leading geneticists is in search of a female volunteer to give birth to a Neanderthal – a species that went extinct more than 33,000 years ago. Using DNA from Neanderthal bones, Harvard Medical School Professor George Church plans to resurrect the Read More »

January 22, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Research
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Finding On Killer Cells Opens New Avenue For Combating AIDS, Cancer And Other Diseases

(Medical News Today) A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has discovered the mechanism that enables CD4 helper T cells to assume the more aggressive role of killer T cells in mounting an immune attack against viruses, cancerous tumors and other damaged or infected cells. The finding, made in Read More »