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19 Mar 2013 | 00:01 GMT

US bioethicists recommend more tests before child anthrax vaccine trials

Posted by Erika Check | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology, Health and medicine

US bioethicists recommend more tests before child anthrax vaccine trials

Bioethicists proposed limits today on the types of clinical trials of anthrax vaccine and other drugs and vaccines aimed at bioterror agents that can be conducted in children.  Read more

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  • Amy Gutmann
  • anthrax
  • biodefense
  • bioethics
  • bioterrorism
  • National Biodefense Science Board
  • President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
  • vaccines

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21 Feb 2013 | 19:13 GMT

New guidelines announced for risky research

Posted by Brendan Maher | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology, Health and medicine, Policy

Twists and turns: Researchers use ferrets to assess the transmissibility of H5N1 in mammals.

US government officials have passed two more checkpoints on the long, winding road towards a policy for dealing with risky research. That journey was forced into overdrive at the end of 2011  when a government body recommended against publishing two studies showing how a deadly form of avian influenza H5N1 could be made to pass between mammals.  Read more

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  • bioterrorism
  • dual-use research
  • H5N1
  • influenza

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31 Jul 2012 | 05:21 GMT

Flu researchers bristle under federal policy

Posted by Brendan Maher | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology

Flu researchers bristle under federal policy

It has been four months since the U.S. government issued a hastily released policy for monitoring what is called dual-use research of concern (DURC), research that could pose significant risks to the public if misapplied. At a meeting in Times Square New York Monday, representatives of leading institutions that perform such research discussed their experiences fitting the new policy into their current procedures for managing research projects. Some were frustrated at the lack of definition in the policy and some expressed concern about what would be contained in an expansion of the policy that is soon to be released for public comment.  Read more

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  • bioterrorism
  • dual-use research
  • flu
  • H5N1
  • influenza

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27 Apr 2012 | 03:25 GMT

Senate Hearing on H5N1 papers exposes political divisions

Posted by Brendan Maher | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology

Senator Lieberman questions panelists on biosecurity

Today in Washington D.C., US Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut revealed that his grandmother was killed by influenza during the 1918 pandemic. This was one reason he has been so interested in a pair of yet-to-be-published papers on laboratory-created H5N1 avian influenza strains that could conceivably prove many times more deadly than the 1918 flu. The other reason for his interest is that he chairs the committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which had called a hearing to understand how decisions were made about the research’s potential use as an agent of bioterrorism. At the hearing, officials involved in making the decision to publish the research were queried about a letter that was leaked to the press two weeks ago.  Read more

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  • Biosecurity
  • bioterrorism
  • H5N1
  • influenza
  • NSABB
  • Pandemic

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15 Feb 2012 | 00:47 GMT

Mixed news for biodefence in President’s budget request

Posted by Erika Check | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology, Health and medicine, Industry, Technology

President Barack Obama’s budget request for 2013 contains mixed news for the US biodefense effort, which came under significant criticism last year for not failing to deliver treatments against biodefense threats despite spending some $60 billion over the previous decade.  Read more

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  • BARDA
  • biodefense
  • BioShield
  • bioterrorism
  • budget
  • Transformational Medical Technologies

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07 Feb 2012 | 20:51 GMT

Video: Debating H5N1 and dual-use research

Posted by Brendan Maher | Categories: Biology & Biotechnology, Health and medicine

On 2 February, scientists and public health officials squared off in a panel discussion at the New York Academy of Sciences. Debate raged around the fate of two papers which describe a mutant strain of the avian influenza virus H5N1. The virus is capable of mammal-to-mammal transmission, which has raised concern that it might be transferable to humans. Several panelists sat down with Nature News to discuss their positions prior to the panel discussion.  Read more

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  • dual-use research
  • H5N1
  • influenza

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