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Darpa, Venter Launch Assembly Line for Genetic Engineering

(Danger Room) The military-industrial complex just got a little bit livelier. Quite literally. That’s because Darpa, the Pentagon’s far-out research arm, has kicked off a program designed to take the conventions of manufacturing and apply them to living cells. Think of it like an assembly line, but one that would churn out modified biological matter  Read More »

Bird-flu research: The biosecurity oversight

(Nature.com) The packages that started arriving by FedEx on 12 October last year came with strict instructions: protect the information within and destroy it after review. Inside were two manuscripts showing how the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus could be made to transmit between mammals. The recipients of these packages — eight members of the  Read More »

Researchers take virus-tracking software worldwide

(R & D Magazine) A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world.

Army study: DNA vaccine and duck eggs protect against hantavirus disease

(US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Army scientists and industry collaborators have successfully protected laboratory animals from lethal hantavirus disease using a novel approach that combines DNA vaccines and duck eggs. The work appears in a recent edition of the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, published by the Public Library of Science.

South Korea to Ramp up Biodefense Efforts

(Global Security Newswire) South Korea is preparing to ramp up efforts to defend against a possible disease-agent terror attack over the next half-decade, the Korea Times reported on Monday. Personnel from the South’s National Institute of Health held discussions with biodefense specialists on the project, according to a source. The agency aims to heighten development  Read More »

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