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Antidotes to anthrax lethal factor intoxication. Part 1: Discovery of potent lethal factor inhibitors with in vivo efficacy.

Related Articles Antidotes to anthrax lethal factor intoxication. Part 1: Discovery of potent lethal factor inhibitors with in vivo efficacy. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2010 Aug 15; Authors: Jiao GS, Kim S, Moayeri M, Cregar-Hernandez L, McKasson L, Margosiak SA, Leppla SH, Johnson AT Sub-nanomolar small molecule inhibitors of anthrax lethal factor have been identified Read More »

September 28, 2010
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Bioterror Absent from Committee Agenda

Secretary Napolitano and Directors Mueller and Leiter Terrorism is the “greatest security challenge of our age,” explained Senator Joe Lieberman, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, during a hearing last Wednesday on “Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland.” Because of this great challenge, FBI Director Robert Mueller, said in Read More »

September 27, 2010
| Filed under North America and Research
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Regulations for Synthetic Biology Need to Address Risks and Rewards

How much should synthetic biology – the design and construction of new biological parts, devices and systems, and the redesign of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes – be regulated? And by whom?

September 27, 2010
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Biotechnology, and Research
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New Biodefense Office, Existing Agency Could Cover Same Ground

An Obama administration plan to establish a “strategic investment firm” for promoting development of biological-weapon and other disease countermeasures could raise questions over division of responsibilities with a Health and Human Services Department agency engaged in related work, Congressional Quarterly reported Wednesday (see GSN, Aug. 20).Unlike the existing Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which Read More »

September 24, 2010
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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Work begins on the new U.S. premier BioLab

DHS has released $40 million to allow work to begin on the U.S. new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, located on the campus of Kansas State University; the lab will replace the aging lab on Plum Island as the premier research center to combat the threat of naturally occurring animal diseases or agroterrorism; the Levl Read More »