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DTRA Contracts for Botulinum Neurotoxin Countermeasures Research

(Global Biodefense) The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) this week announced intentions to award three contracts in support of “Medical Countermeasures for Botulinum Neurotoxin Intoxication Focused on Therapeutics and Neuroregenerative Medicines”. DTRA has established a multicenter program in which directed research projects are submitted, evaluated and selected to sponsor a network of collaboration amongst researchers. Read More »

February 20, 2014
| Filed under Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, and Research
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WSU scientists use ancient teeth, fleas in ‘Black Death’ study

(KREM) A study’s recent finding about a plague that struck 1,500 years ago might seem arbitrary – except that it involves a resurrected pathogen whose secrets, pulled from ancient teeth, can help us understand our world’s emerging diseases. The pathogen, the oldest to be genetically decoded, caused one of the world’s deadliest scourges. By reconstructing Read More »

February 20, 2014
| Filed under Agents & Toxins and Research
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Chemist gets US patent for solution to resistance problem

(University of Copenhagen) A chemist based at the University of Copenhagen has just taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria responsive to antibiotics once again. Jørn Bolstad and his chemist colleagues hope that the substance will soon be able to tackle the tremendous problems associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis Read More »

February 19, 2014
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, and Research
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MRSA Superbug Protein Structure Solved

(Global Biodefense) A research team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center is the first to decipher the 3-D structure of a protein that confers antibiotic resistance from one of the most worrisome disease agents: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The Vanderbilt team’s findings may be an important step in combating the MRSA public health threat over the Read More »