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Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Exercises Option with Pfenex Inc. To Extend Contract for the Development of a Recombinant Protective Antigen (rPA) Based Anthrax Vaccine

(Press Release) Pfenex Inc. today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), has exercised its option associated with the existing Pfenex contractual relationship begun in July, 2010. This extends the contract supporting the development of a robust Pfenex Expression Technology(TM) based production strain  Read More »

U.S. Completing Work on Foot-and-Mouth Vaccine

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. government has almost finished work on a vaccine for treating the highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease — a possible biological weapon for terrorists looking to decimate the nation’s meat production, BBC News reported last week. While humans cannot contract foot-and-mouth disease, it is extremely contagious among cloven-footed animals such as goats,  Read More »

Exploring Options For NBAF

(KCUR) It’s another big week for NBAF, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility under construction in Manhattan, Kan. A panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences will be hearing expert testimony about the animal health lab in three teleconferences, beginning tomorrow. And the project’s future may be at stake because this committee is  Read More »

NIH preparing tool to help labs cope with new DURC policy

(CIDRAP News) Federal officials are working on guidance to help local institutions implement the government’s new policy on the oversight of life-sciences dual-use research of concern (DURC), an official from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said today. Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH,  Read More »

Extended H5N1 Moratorium?

(Scientist) A US science official recommends extending moratorium on bird flu studies as well as other types of risky research. Despite positive recommendations by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) and the US Department of Health and Human Services to publish in full the results of two H5N1 studies that managed to make  Read More »

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