biodefense news from FierceBioResearcher

Seven years and more than $50 billion after 9/11, biosecurity experts say the U.S. still has made only marginal progress developing the security measures and new therapeutics needed to protect the Read more...

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the UK has been contained after a government report pinned the blame for the outbreak on leaky pipes at the Institute for Animal Health's Pirbright site. Read more...

A group of German scientists has provoked a storm of criticism following the publication of their work in which they reengineered bacterium to cause disease in a species that had previously been unaffected by it. On the plus side, observers agreed that the work signaled a serious advance in protein biophysics, advancing our understanding of the ways that proteins act on an atomic scale. Wolf-Dieter Schubert and Andreas Lengeling understood that a difference in proteins protected mice …

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About a dozen different states are competing to host a new, $450 million government BioDefense research lab that will employ about 300 researchers working on avian flu, anthrax, bird flu and more. Officials are expected to whittle down the prospective sites under review this summer as various groups show off their local scientific expertise. States most interested include Texas, California, Georgia, Kansas, Oklahoma, …

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Cutting research funds a short-sighted mistake
The supply of federal research funds in the U.S. has never kept up with demand. But the administration's effort to …

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