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Fort Detrick scientist who improved anthrax vaccine after 2001 attacks is Heyman finalist

(The Washington Post) Art Friedlander agrees to a morning rendezvous at a McDonald’s parking lot in Frederick. Taking guests to a military post where scientists test vaccines for anthrax is “a pain in the neck,” he says. Friedlander is a senior scientist at Fort Detrick, the brain stem of the military’s biological defense program. The  Read More »

MMV develops framework to assess risk of resistance for antimalarial compounds

(EurekAlert) Medicines for Malaria Venture has developed a framework to evaluate the risk of resistance for the antimalarial compounds in its portfolio. A paper based on this work: A framework for assessing the risk of resistance for antimalarials in development has been published in the Malaria Journal today. Resistance defines the longevity of every anti-infective  Read More »

Sanctuary chimps show high rates of drug-resistant staph

(EurekAlert) Chimpanzees from African sanctuaries carry drug-resistant, human-associated strains of the bacteria Staphlyococcus aureus, a pathogen that the infected chimpanzees could spread to endangered wild ape populations if they were reintroduced to their natural habitat, a new study shows. The study by veterinarians, microbiologists and ecologists was the first to apply the same modern sequencing  Read More »

Biowatch Has Problems But Should be Continued, Officials Say

(Global Security Newswire) While a federal program for detecting a biological weapons attack has operational weaknesses, the effort should not be discontinued, public health specialists said in a Friday Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy report. A recent Los Angeles Times report enumerated a number of technical shortcomings of the Biowatch program, which deploys  Read More »

Obama Cautions Syria on WMD Usage

(Global Security Newswire) Any attempt by the Syrian government to employ or strategically field biological or chemical weapons would cross a “red line” that could lead the United States to change its posture on dealing with the Assad regime’s attempt to remain in power, Reuters quoted President Obama as saying on Monday. “A red line for us is (if)  Read More »

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