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Time and Money Are Being Wasted in the Lab

(The Chronicle) Advances across virtually all fields of science show promise for solving an array of puzzles about the nature of the world—from disease emergence and climate-change impact to the origins of our universe. Unfortunately, the pace of scientific progress is being slowed by excessive, redundant, and ineffective requirements imposed both by government agencies and  Read More »

Scientists Air Worries Over Proposed Rules on Avian Influenza Studies

(Global Security Newswire) The Obama administration last week rolled out a system to assess the potential benefits and threats of certain avian influenza studies and possibly mandate nondisclosure of some research activities, prompting worried responses over the measure’s potential to inhibit future research, Science magazine reported on Friday. National Institutes of Health Associate Director Amy Patterson  Read More »

Recombinant Production of Carrier Proteins

(Genetic Engineering News) Within the rapidly growing vaccine space, conjugate vaccines—polysaccharide antigens covalently linked to carrier proteins—have been shown to be effective against several bacterial pathogens. Conjugate vaccines use carrier proteins to increase the immunogenicity of antigens (e.g., peptides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides) and other haptens. These antigens are poor immunogens unless conjugated to proteins. The role  Read More »

The role of the cellular entry point of anthrax identified

(Phys.org) A team led by Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan, a professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in collaboration with Gisou van der Goot at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), reveals that Antxr2a actually plays a role in embryonic development, orienting cell division along a specific plane, which is a prelude to the formation of  Read More »

US Plans for New H5N1 Science Reviews Ruffle Researchers

(AAAS) Researchers are giving mixed reviews to a draft U.S. government plan to subject some grant requests for studies involving the H5N1 avian influenza virus to special reviews—and perhaps even require the work to be kept secret. Elements of the plan have been “very controversial within [the] U.S. government” committee that developed it, Amy Patterson,  Read More »

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