biodefense
biodefence
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biological defence

"So I want a robust biodefense research and development program."

Since the attacks of Sept. 11, biodefense has become big business.

Second is the need for much greater care within the U.S. biodefense program.

While a biodefense program is needed, he said the president should have reduced—not raised—the number of scientists with access to potential biological weapons.

He found allies there among several officials who were steeped in biodefense.

He is considered a leading expert in the areas of infectious diseases and biodefense.

In the early 1990s, Hauer got his first contacts to military and biodefense.

Moreover, he said, much of the biodefense research should also help protect against natural emerging disease threats.

He last wrote for the magazine about the state of U.S. biodefense preparations.

Biodefense is defense against bioterrorism, often in the form of a vaccine or medicine.

It's time for Congress or an outside commission to investigate our nation's biodefense program and establish oversight.

At the Army's biodefense laboratory, he said, "among the senior scientists, no one believes it."

Some biodefense experts challenge the need for so many highest-containment labs.

Instead, these critics say, the biodefense expansion has been fueled by a scramble for federal money.

Our system for securing biodefense facilities has already failed.

The study, which focused on five federal biodefense agencies, will be made public on Tuesday.

To maintain the public's trust, our national strategy for biodefense needs to be more clearly reasoned and articulated.

After Sept. 11 and anthrax, we built up biodefense capabilities, but we’re moving backward.

Ivins was one of the nation's leading biodefense researchers.

I am director of a leading Northeast academic biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research center.

This resilience makes them important indicators for cleanliness and biodefense."

Working in the cyber-equivalent of a biodefense lab is fraught with complications.

Human Genome Sciences is the latest company to announce work in biodefense.

And for many companies, the biodefense sales will probably be small compared with sales for general medical use.

He said it's a "myth" that spending money on biodefense is diverting funds from more important threats.

An earlier biodefence commission said in 2011 that a vaccine should be developed for children.

The company's business strategy is focused in three areas: biodefence, cancer and infectious diseases.

Dr. Peterson described the regulator’s role in biodefence.

In the past, the United States has understood the need for transparency and limits in its biodefence programme.

The French appeal comes at the same time as a rebellion by some 750 US scientists against increased investment in biodefence research.

If he wished merely to make the US pour billions into biodefence, he did succeed."

The National Biodefence Science Board said at the time that any such study would need approval from a bioethics panel first.

From biodefence to biosecurity: the Obama administration's strategy for countering biological threats", International Affairs."

The patent-pending technology has applications in Biodefence, environmental monitoring (air, water and food) and biomedical diagnosis of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections.

In addition, many U.S. biomedical companies are working on technologies such as antivirals and antibiotics that can be used for both conventional health care and biodefence.

Chairman, Inter-ministerial group on Biodefence constituted by PMO.

More information can be found at www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca 4.3 Regulator's Role in Biodefense Dr. Peterson described the regulator's role in biodefence.

Sedor states, "I'm very pleased to join Cangene, a pioneering company with solid fundamentals, including successful biodefence and biopharma products, a strong balance sheet and talented people.

There are descriptions of three classified U.S. biodefence projects: Project Bacchus, Project Clear Vision, and Project Jefferson.

In particular, the survey was designed to focus on six key areas, namely, microbiological production, work with microorganisms and/or toxins, genetic manipulation of organisms, aerosol dissemination, biocontainment and biodefence programmes.

According to a number of respectable commentators, the FBI has already identified the killer-letter culprit, but cannot make an arrest because of the risk of exposing secret government "biodefence" programs.

“This horse is out of the barn,” Professor Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, told the journal Nature.

WHEN the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced on June 18th that Texas A&M University had been awarded a whopping contract to build a new biodefence centre, outsiders took notice.

Areas of expertise include: bacterial vaccines, toxin therapeutics, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and in-vivo testing of compounds, biodefence and biosafety testing, diagnostics, and the provision of cell cultures.

Not only does this significantly increase the total revenue value of this contract, it also indicates that BARDA is adopting a strategy of extending these types of contracts to replenish supplies of biodefence products.

These nanobiosensors constitute an important breakthrough in the speedy detection of living bacteria and will have wide applications in biodefence, environmental monitoring, quality assurance of foods and beverages, and biomedical diagnosis of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

"There are more than two million emergency response personnel at some 90,000 public health and safety facilities on the front lines of biowarfare who would directly benefit from the ability to quickly detect or dismiss a potential threat—a critical first step of any biodefence strategy."

While funding for biodefence research increased 15-fold between 1998 and 2005, the letter claims that the number of grants for non-biodefence disease germs fell by 27 per cent, and grants for studying model bacteria fell by 41 per cent.

The local sector has strengths in a number of areas including human health (human vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, drug-delivery systems, clinical trials, nutraceuticals and medical devices), agriculture (pesticides, plant breeding, and veterinary vaccines), biodefence, bioinformatics, biomaterials and marine biotechnology.

The kinds of agency activities that prompted Mahley's testimony and the hardline US opposition to a Protocol were illuminated by a New York Times article on September 4, 2001, exposing three secret biodefence projects that push up against the permissible limits of the BWC.

And it expanded in a major way our biological defense research program.

The agency spent $166.8 million on biological defense research in the fiscal year that ended last month.

The only value of biological defenses is use with our own germ weapons.

Just one of the disadvantages of a biological defense system.

"Get serious," she said, arguing that the budget for chemical and biological defense should be doubled.

A 1989 Army document claims that all biological defense work is now unclassified.

He said that women have biological defenses against pregnancy in the case of "legitimate rape."

If the administration accepts the panel's ideas, Congressional action could be needed to set up the proposed biological defense advisory committee.

Secrecy about the biological defense program has contributed to a spate of nasty rumors.

In publishing the report, the academy said, it hoped to help American scientists identify ways to bolster the nation's biological defenses.

Apart from biological defense research, done mostly at military institutions, academic biology is focused on medicine and conducted without security restraints.

The work was carried out by academic researchers, not by government or contractor scientists linked to Australia's biological defense program.

I believe projects funded by the Defense Department's biological defense research program raise compliance problems.

As a defense contractor, the company supports government analysts in chemical and biological defense through its web-based information management systems.

Finally, the hemeprotein catalase aids in biological defense.

It was turned over to the Homeland Security Department because preventing an outbreak is now part of the nation's biological defense program.

Akin was pilloried last month when he said in a television interview that women's bodies have natural biological defenses against pregnancy following "legitimate rape."

Calvin denies (contra Aquinas and without mentioning his name) that the tree served as a biological defense against physical aging.

Friedlander is a senior scientist at Fort Detrick, the brain stem of the military’s biological defense program.

And biological defenses, too.

Biological defense may refer to:

The anthrax letters buried those doubts, and Congress quickly voted a massive increase in funding for biological defense, including the anthrax vaccine.

Until recently in the United States, most biological defense strategies have been geared to protecting soldiers on the battlefield rather than ordinary people in cities.

Since 1963 he has been interested in chemical and biological defense and arms control, has served as a consultant on this subject to various government agencies.

Since the discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological defense program.

The end result is increased resistance to the stressful condition making this a type of biological defence mechanism.

Then we have other biological defence mechanisms.

Volunteers for studies at chemical and biological defence establishment, Porton Down.

And weight - particularly in adults but also in children - is very hard to shift, thanks to our inbuilt biological defences.

Q You mentioned 'biological defence mechanisms'.

Volunteers for studies at Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment.

Duties: Provide scientific leadership and participate in a research program on application of molecular recognition in chemical and biological defence.

This involves such diverse areas as military engineering, space development, nuclear, chemical and biological defence, operational research and joint exercises and plans.

Gene technology offers a novel way of eliminating these residues: borrow the insect pests' own biological defences against the same insecticides.

Basic Chemical and Biological Defence Instructor course.

Furthermore, the introduction of insect-resistant genes will make parasites more and more resistant, until eventually we find ourselves without any further biological defences.

Army Chemical and Biological Defence Command.

There are five key areas in the chemical and biological defence effort: hazard assessment, detection and identification, physical protection, medical countermeasures, and verification technology.

Virtually all live-agent chemical and biological defence training and research activities are conducted at CFB Suffield.

Additionally, the centre will facilitate access by first responders to the expertise of DRDC in the field of chemical and biological defence.

R&D in the areas of chemical and biological defence for life support systems, and military engineering and tactical vehicle systems for combat systems:

As he dropped his gaze, he found himself staring at a sign, "Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment, Porton Down."

Radiological, Chemical & Biological Defence, CEPA 14:

Recently, it is hypothesized that these metals exert their toxic effect by damaging biological defences which exist in the body to serve as protective mechanisms against exogenous toxins.

DRDC Suffield conducts a vigorous and innovative research program in chemical and biological defence, military engineering, and tactical vehicle systems.

Porton Down is one of a number of Dstl sites in the UK and is chiefly concerned with chemical and biological defence.

DESTO retains its expertise on variety of disciplines such as aerodynamics, propulsion, electronics, computer systems, engineering, explosives, metallurgy, chemical and biological defence.

Following this exercise Dr Shaw had the opportunity to visit the UK chemical and biological defence establishment at Porton Down for bilateral consultations.

The Suffield Research Centre is a Canadian centre of excellence for chemical and biological defence and has research programs in blast, casualty management, and autonomous systems.

The tests were carried out by scientists from the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment (CBDE) from Porton Down.