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OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center develops new, safer method for making vaccines

(Oregon Health & Science University) OHSU researchers have discovered a new method for creating vaccines that is thought to be safer and more effective than current approaches. The method uses hydrogen peroxide to inactivate viruses for use as vaccines. The research results are published online in the journal Nature Medicine.

May 30, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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Senators ask downgrade of brucellosis pathogen

(Billings Gazette) Montana’s senators have stepped into the Yellowstone bison fray by requesting that two federal agencies downgrade the pathogen that causes brucellosis to ease research into a vaccine. The disease, carried by the park’s bison and now prevalent in some western Montana elk, can cause cattle to abort.

May 30, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Statehouse Live: Officials vow to fight for NBAF funding

(Lawrence Journal World) TOPEKA — A bipartisan effort led to Kansas winning a state-of-the-art federal research lab, but the project is running into opposition in Washington, D.C., officials said Tuesday. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, didn’t put funding for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in his proposed budget, and Republican leaders in Congress have Read More »

May 30, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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New study shows why swine flu virus develops drug resistance

(University of Bristol) Professor Adrian Mulholland and Dr Christopher Woods from Bristol’s School of Chemistry, together with colleagues in Thailand, used graphics processing units (GPUs) to simulate the molecular processes that take place when these drugs are used to treat the H1N1-2009 strain of influenza – commonly known as ‘swine flu’. Their results, published today Read More »

May 30, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, and Research
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Powerful New Approach to Attack Flu Virus

(Science Daily) An international research team has manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics. The paper, featured on the cover of the current issue of Nature Biotechnology, demonstrates ways to use manufactured genes as antivirals, which disable key functions of the flu virus, said Tim Whitehead, assistant professor of chemical engineering and Read More »