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Air Force Wants New Energy Weapons to Cause Non-Lethal Bioeffects

(Wired) The Air Force is preparing to spend millions researching how unknown “bioeffects” happen when the human body is blasted by radiowaves and high-powered microwaves — which the Air Force hopes could lead to exotic new energy weapons. Recently, the Air Force Bioeffects Division announced it’s exploring how radiation from non-lethal energy weapons can causes Read More »

April 2, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, and Research
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Study of Virus-Killing Bacteria Motion Advances Nanotechnology

(GlobalBiodefense) Scientists have cracked a 35-year-old mystery about the workings of the natural motors that are serving as models for development of a futuristic genre of synthetic nanomotors that pump therapeutic DNA, RNA or drugs into individual diseased cells. The researchers explain that two motors had been found in nature: a linear motor and a Read More »

April 2, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Research
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Designer Antibodies For HIV

(MedicalNewsToday) An effective vaccine against HIV-1 remains elusive, but one promising strategy focuses on designer antibodies that have much broader potency than most normal, exquisitely specific antibodies. These broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) can handle the high mutation rate of HIV particles that makes normal, very specific antibodies useless within a short space of time. A Read More »

April 2, 2013
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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Designer Antibodies For HIV

An effective vaccine against HIV-1 remains elusive, but one promising strategy focuses on designer antibodies that have much broader potency than most normal, exquisitely specific antibodies. These broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) can handle the high mutation rate of HIV particles that makes normal, very specific antibodies useless within a short space of time…

April 2, 2013
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New instrument will quickly detect botulinum, ricin, other biothreat agents

(DOE/Sandia National Laboratories) Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a medical instrument that will be able to quickly detect a suite of biothreat agents, including anthrax, ricin, botulinum, shiga and SEB toxin. Sandia’s work is funded by a recent grant — nearly $4 million over four years — from the National Institute of Allergy Read More »