Tag: Botulinum Neurotoxin

The Federal Select Agent Program, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Select Agents and Toxins, ...

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is soliciting proposals for the advanced research and development of medical countermeasures ...

Health Canada has approved the Emergent BioSolutions Inc. New Drug Submission (NDS) for its botulism antitoxin, BAT® . BAT is ...

The total number of incidents involving incomplete inactivation—a process to destroy the hazardous effects of pathogens while retaining characteristics for ...

A Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the U.S. military’s Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) medical countermeasure efforts was renewed ...

New details about how "cloaking" proteins protect the toxin that causes botulism may prove crucial to developing vaccines or therapeutics ...

Military program managers briefed biopharmaceutical industry and research organization representatives during a Nov. 2 Industry Day, part of an initiative ...

The U.S. federal government has recently extended the period of performance on three Research and Development contracts in support of ...

The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) at Fort Detrick is soliciting proposals which provide enhanced solutions to ...

Three contracts in support of a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) botulinum neurotoxin countermeasure research consortium will receive funding extensions ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has released a new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to support development ...

The number of new Ebola cases is tapering off, but the search for new treatments continues. Now, one research team ...

The Joint Project Management Medical Countermeasure Systems (JPM-MCS), as part of the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological ...

The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's (USAMRMC) has announced an updated Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to fund solutions to ...

The DHS Directorate of Science and Technology, Chemical and Biological Defense Division (CBD) has awarded a sole source contract to Tetracore ...

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) is contracting with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Inc. (IAS) in support of ...

Clostridium botulinum bacteria produce the most deadly toxin we know of. Scientists from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ...

The current method to treat acute toxin poisoning is to inject antibodies, commonly produced in animals, to neutralize the toxin. ...

UC Irvine School of Medicine researchers have discovered the mechanism by which bacterial toxins that cause food-borne botulism are absorbed ...

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) hosted its 19th Biennial Medical Defense Bioscience Review, “Advances in ...