See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including CRISPR crops, antibiotic stewardship roadmap, and tips for growing a successful biotech startup. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Viewpoint: Why the USDA decided not to [Read more]
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including funding for the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, the BBC Four Pandemic documentary, and avian flu in seabirds. BIOPREPAREDNESS How fast can [Read more]
AbCellera Biologics Inc. this week announced that it was awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop rapid countermeasures against viral outbreaks. Under DARPA’s Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) [Read more]
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including early warning systems for WMDs, experimental Ebola vaccines, and the new congressional biodefense caucus. BIOPREPAREDNESS An early warning system for WMDs The [Read more]
Two leading influenza experts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have published new commentary on how the evolution of proteins found on the surfaces of flu viruses has [Read more]
Rapidly rising global poultry numbers, along with selective breeding and production techniques which have dramatically altered the bodies of chickens and other poultry, have made the planet more “infectible”, says Professor Stephen [Read more]
Saint Louis University is studying an investigational vaccine for bird flu as part of the federal government’s efforts to prepare for a global influenza pandemic. Funded by the National Institutes of Health [Read more]
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published an updated assessment of the risk to humans from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N8) viruses. This year Hungary, Austria, Germany, [Read more]
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including pandemic simulations, Canada’s anthrax vaccine stockpile, animal feed biosecurity, and CRISPR’s promise for better animal models. BIOPREPAREDNESS Assessing the epidemic potential of [Read more]
Scientists led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh recently published findings from analysis of how H5N8 avian influenza spread around the world following outbreaks in South Korea that began in early [Read more]
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