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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 »

April 2, 2013
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Fighting listeria and other food-borne illnesses with nanobiotechnology

(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food handling and packaging. This innovation represents an alternative to the use of antibiotics or chemical decontamination in food supply systems.

April 2, 2013
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New foot-and-mouth vaccine signals huge advance in global disease control

(MedicalXpress) They have used a new method to produce a vaccine that doesn’t rely on inactivating the live, infectious virus which causes the disease – and is therefore much safer to produce. Instead the vaccine consists of empty virus shells that have been produced synthetically, and are designed to produce an immune response that protects Read More »

April 1, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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Takeda Submits NDA Application For Cell Culture-Based H5N1 Vaccines

(AsianScientistMagazine) Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced on Wednesday that it has submitted New Drug Applications for cell culture-based H5N1 and prototype pandemic influenza vaccines to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan, using its Hikari Plant as the manufacturing facility. In December 2010, Takeda and the Illinois, US-based Baxter International Inc. entered into Read More »

April 1, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Countermeasures, and Research
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Air Force Wants New Energy Weapons to Cause Non-Lethal ‘Bioeffects’

Here’s what the Air Force is preparing to spend $49 million discovering: how directed energy weapons can “identify critical biochemical or molecular changes.” Which could make for better weapons.