How to make money in the age of federal spending cuts | Failing vaccine strategies need to be revamped | Anthrax in Minnesota? The Laboratory Response Network springs into action | US flu markers show further signs of decline | Sinovac vaccine for foot and mouth disease meets study goal | U.S. Intel chief warns of Syrian bioweapons | Prediction of seasonal flu strains improves chances of universal vaccine | Antibiotics are unique assassins | Genome-based therapeutics workshop summary | Photos: 31st MEU, Thai fight against notional radiological threat | Book review: Cuddling up to biotech’s brave new beasts | Novel technique for chemical identification at nanometer scale | Hotzone Solutions helps launch international CBRNE masters course | Inexpensive device for rapid point-of-care detection gets boost in sensitivity | A passport to nanomedicine success

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics like CBRN cooperative training, bioweapons in Syria, point-of-care diagnostics news and more…

How to make money in the age of federal spending cuts (Washington Post)

Failing vaccine strategies need to be revamped (SciDev)

Anthrax in Minnesota? The Laboratory Response Network springs into action (APHL)

US flu markers show further signs of decline (CIDRAP)

Sinovac vaccine for foot and mouth disease meets study goal (BioSpace)

U.S. Intel chief warns of Syrian bioweapons (NTI GSN)

Prediction of seasonal flu strains improves chances of universal vaccine (Univ. Melbourne)

Antibiotics are unique assassins (Northeastern)

Genome-based therapeutics workshop summary (National Academies)

Photos: 31st MEU, Thai fight against notional radiological threat (DVIDS)

Book review: Cuddling up to biotech’s brave new beasts (The Guardian)

Novel technique for chemical identification at nanometer scale (Engineering at Illinois)