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Kansas to break ground on NBAF project

(CJOnline) After several years of political and fiscal wrangling, Kansas officials are preparing to formally break ground on a new federal biodefense lab in Manhattan. Officials including Gov. Sam Brownback and leaders of Kansas State University will hold a ceremony Tuesday as ground is broken for the lab’s utility plant. It marks the start of Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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New Tools to Hunt New Viruses

(TheNewYorkTimes) A new flu, H7N9, has killed 36 people since it was first found in China two months ago. A new virus from the SARS family has killed 22 people since it was found on the Arabian Peninsula last summer. In past years, this might have been occasion for panic. Yet chicken and pork sales Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, South Asia, Agents & Toxins, International, Public Health, and Research
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Chapel Hill drug firm Cempra lands bioterror antibiotic contract worth up to $58M

(WRAL) Cempra (Nasdaq: CEMP) has won a contract worth as much as $58 million over five years from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for development of an antibiotic that could be used by young people and to counter bioterror threats. The company has secured a two-year deal worth $17 million to work Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Salmonella uses protective switch during infection

(EurekAlert) For the first time, researchers have found a particular kind of molecular switch in the food poisoning bacteria Salmonella Typhimurium under infection-like conditions. This switch, using a process called S-thiolation, appears to be used by the bacteria to respond to changes in the environment during infection and might protect it from harm, researchers report Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Agriculture, Public Health, and Research
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Salmonella uses protective switch during infection

(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) For the first time, researchers have found a particular kind of molecular switch in the food poisoning bacteria Salmonella Typhimurium under infection-like conditions. This switch, using a process called S-thiolation, appears to be used by the bacteria to respond to changes in the environment during infection and might protect it from Read More »