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New antiviral treatment could significantly reduce global burden of hepatitis C

(EurekAlert) Around 150 million people globally are chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) – a major cause of liver disease and the fastest growing cause of liver transplantation and liver cancer. 1 New prevention strategies are urgently required as people are continuing to be infected with HCV. Findings, published in Hepatology, reveal the Read More »

May 7, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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DARPA Seeks Innovative Biodefense, Counter-WMD Proposals

(GlobalBiodefense) The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals of interest to defense and national security. Unconventional approaches that are outside the mainstream are sought, undertaking directions that challenge assumptions and have the potential to radically change established practice.

May 7, 2013
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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TB, HIV and malaria vaccine research gets major boost

(EurekAlert) Aeras, a nonprofit biotech advancing TB vaccines for the world, the University of Oxford and Okairos, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in T-cell vaccines, today announced a $2.9 million grant to Aeras in support of a collaboration among the three parties to support the development of vaccines against tuberculosis, HIV and malaria.

May 7, 2013
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Chinese Team Boosts Avian Flu’s Transmissibility

(GlobalSecurityNewswire) Chinese scientists have modified avian influenza to spread rapidly through the air between guinea pigs by incorporating genetic material from a human version of the virus, the journal Science reported last week. The team created 127 H5N1 bird flu strains with varying amounts of genetic code from the virus behind the H1N1 swine flu Read More »

May 7, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific and Research
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New federal investment could save millions of lives

(EurekAlert) Thanks to new federal funding, low-cost, easily accessible technology invented by a Simon Fraser University engineering professor and his graduate students is closer to helping to save millions of infant lives. The lab-on-a-chip (LOC), designed by Ash Parameswaran and his students, is among 102 global research projects receiving $100,000 each through the federal government’s Read More »