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A novel coronavirus
(The Economist) MOST of the time, for most people, respiratory diseases such as influenza and the common cold are little more than a snotty inconvenience. Occasionally, though, the viruses that cause them mutate into something truly nasty. The Spanish flu of 1918 may have killed more people than the first world war. More recently, there Read More »
- September 28, 2012
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Cytori Wins Up to $106M Biodefense Cell Therapy Contract – Genetic Engineering News
Cytori Wins Up to $106M Biodefense Cell Therapy ContractGenetic Engineering NewsCell therapies firm Cytori won a potentially $106 million contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for preclinical and clinical development of its cell therapy for …
- September 28, 2012
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Hoya Citings: Student contributes to foot-and-mouth disease research in Shanghai laboratory
(Vox Populi) Until this summer, Georgetown student David Schaffer (COL ’14) never thought he’d need to know how to say “flask” in Chinese. And no, this is was not his way to get to know Shanghai’s nightlife. Schaffer spent the summer in China at Shanghai’s State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering in Fudan University, scrambling Read More »
- September 28, 2012
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Biologists Replay 500 Million Years Of E Coli Evolution In The Lab
(Technology Review) Biology is changing so rapidly and fundamentally that it’s hard to keep track of the revolutionary transformations that are afoot. Here’s one of them. Synthetic biology is the design and construction of biological systems not found in nature. This is engineering– using molecular building blocks to create new biomolecules, such as genes. Here’s Read More »
- September 28, 2012
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New Approaches to Global Health Cooperation
On November 7, 2011, the Global Health Policy Center of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., in partnership with the Fiocruz Center for Global Health (CRIS) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hosted a seminar entitled “New Approaches to Global Health Cooperation.” The event, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Read More »
- September 27, 2012
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