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Science Publishing and the Dual Use Dilemma

(PLOS Blogs) You may be familiar with the controversy over recent research conducted on H5N1 influenza. If you follow science news, it’s been hard to miss. Two papers, both of which report on the potential for H5N1 to become transmissible between experimental mammals, set off an international flurry over potential biosecurity concerns late last year. Read More »

May 29, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Bioterrorism, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Science Journal Produces a Different Kind of Viral Video

(MIT Technology Review) The world’s first peer-reviewed video journal gives scientists a better way to show others how to replicate experiments. If a photo is worth a thousand words, imagine the understanding that can be captured from 10 minutes at 30 frames per second. A scientific journal dedicated to video—a medium seldom seen in peer-reviewed Read More »

May 28, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Biotechnology, International, and Research
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Science Publishing and the Dual Use Dilemma

(PLoS Blogs) You may be familiar with the controversy over recent research conducted on H5N1 influenza. If you follow science news, it’s been hard to miss. Two papers, both of which report on the potential for H5N1 to become transmissible between experimental mammals, set off an international flurry over potential biosecurity concerns late last year. Read More »

May 28, 2012
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Europe targets superbugs with public-private effort

(Nature News Blog) The growing threat from antibiotic resistance met the era of the public-private partnership on 24 May as the European Union’s Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) launched a new seven-year effort to bring academic and industry researchers together to work on the problem. Dubbed NewDrugs4BadBugs, the call for proposals is supported by a €223.7 Read More »

May 25, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Taking the Pulse of CDC’s PulseNet

(Food Safety News) This week at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Health Laboratories in Seattle, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – which operates PulseNet – explained the crucial role this pathogen database plays in outbreak detection and the challenges that must be met in order for it to Read More »