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Genetically modified food-crops: blessing or curse?

(The Express Tribune) There is immense pressure on developing countries to adopt genetically modified (GM) crops in the shortest possible time to supposedly ensure food security and boost agricultural productivity. Being a signatory to the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights, however, Pakistan is obliged to protect intellectual property rights (IPRs) of multinational organisations  Read More »

The U.S. Role in Global Polio Eradication

This paper provides an overview of the global polio eradication effort, emphasizing the U.S. role. The purpose is to explain how the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) came to where it is today and discuss plans for moving it forward. read more

Weapon-Usable Tech Seen Challenging Bioweapons Convention

By Diane Barnes Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON — An array of advances in science and technology threaten to undermine the Biological Weapons Convention by enabling a nefarious actor to engineer disease agents to be more virulent or resistant to medical countermeasures, treaty signatories said on Friday. Growing capabilities to render pathogens more communicable, immune system-resistant,  Read More »

With new rules, few public health labs to handle riskiest agents

(CIDRAP) With tougher security requirements set to take effect next April, few state public health laboratories plan to maintain stocks of certain pathogens considered most tempting to bioterrorists, according to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and officials with state labs. Pathogens such as Bacillus anthracis, Ebola virus, and several others have been designated  Read More »

Ebola virus uses a protein decoy to subvert the host immune response

(EurekAlert) In a study published today in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers at Emory University have discovered a potentially important mechanism by which the Ebola virus alters and evades the immune response of its infected host. Ebola virus is the causative agent of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF), a disease with up to 90  Read More »

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