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DTRA Chem-Bio Seeks Diagnostics Innovation Challenge Services

(Global Biodefense) The Chemical and Biological Technologies Department at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is seeking sources to assist agency staff in defining, developing, advertising, and administering a large market stimulatory grand challenge and prize reward initiative related to point-of-care or point-of-need diagnostics for infectious disease threats. The Department of Defense (DoD) seeks to Read More »

November 27, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biotechnology, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Live pigs ‘blasted with explosives and monkeys infected with anthrax during cruel experiments’

(The Independent) Live pigs were blasted with explosives and forced to inhale mustard gas, and monkeys infected with anthrax during “disturbing and cruel” experiments at Porton Down, it was claimed today. Scientists at the top secret military research establishment in Wiltshire were accused of causing “substantial” suffering to animals in the past two years. The Read More »

November 27, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, and Research
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Malaria study suggests drugs should target female parasites

(University of Edinburgh) Fresh insight into the parasite that causes malaria suggests a new way to develop drugs and vaccines to tackle the disease.

November 27, 2012
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Cases of Marburg, Ebola climb in Uganda – CIDRAP

Times LIVECases of Marburg, Ebola climb in UgandaCIDRAPNov 26, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – An outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has grown to 20 cases in western Uganda, and 10 people in two of Uganda's central districts have contracted Ebola hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said …WHO tracking latest Marburg, Ebola outbreaks in UgandaGovernment Read More »

November 26, 2012
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Biodefense Research Guards Against Virus More Deadly, Untreatable Than Ebola

(US News) Deadly, virulent viruses have jumped species from nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees to the human species three times in history: the SIV virus that almost certainly led to the worldwide AIDS pandemic, the SV-40 “cancer” virus that was accidentally included in polio vaccines in the 1950s, and the deadly Ebola virus. Now, in Read More »