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Chemistry World
September 11, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
NIH audit turns up plague bacteria and ricin US National Institutes of Health initiated a sweep of its facilities to uncover any improperly stored dangerous agents, toxins or hazardous biological materials. That search has now revealed several instances of lax oversight.   |
Chemistry World
June 3, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Biosafety blunder as US sends live anthrax to labs around world Revelations that the US Department of Defense accidentally shipped live anthrax samples to at least 24 labs in 11 states and two foreign countries has prompted a congressional committee to demand answers. |
Chemistry World
October 22, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Research to make pathogens more dangerous halted The US government will temporarily suspend federal funding for certain types of research that aim to make some pathogens more dangerous, the White House has announced. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2011
Leila Sattary |
Higher education cuts hit home Universities in England will lose 940 million in funding in the next financial year with severe cuts to capital budgets and teaching. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Christine Soares |
Could Animal Surveillance Have Seen Swine Flu Coming? The surveillance of animals for new flu viruses has lagged behind preparations for the human pandemics that can be caused by the bugs |
National Defense
June 2011
Eric Beidel |
Industry, Academia Race to Create Drugs Against Biological Warfare On the heels of anthrax comes a string of deadly agents that scientists also fear can be used as weapons and spread with ease. |
Chemistry World
August 5, 2015
Jaroslaw Adamowski |
Drop in number of Polish academics causes concern One of Poland's university associations is reporting that the number of academics and researchers at the country's higher education institutions is in decline. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2007
Victoria J. Davey |
Questions and Answers on Pandemic Influenza Striking a balance between risk and preparedness. |
Wired
January 2006
Thomas Goetz |
The Battle to Stop Bird Flu The Bird Flu pandemic has hit New Mexico. Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations are unleashing disease and tracking its course, 6 billion people at a time. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2012
Patrick McGhee |
Losing concentration In the UK, successive governments have held to the mantra that funding for university research should be heavily concentrated in a handful of universities. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2006
Jeff Wise |
Fighting Fire With Fire By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Plague fears A bioterrorism expert talks about the wicked ways of anthrax and the even deadlier potential scourge of smallpox... |
Chemistry World
September 28, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
US public research universities in jeopardy, board warns The US's public research universities are in serious jeopardy, the National Science Board is warning. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Obama wants to boost R&D funding 6% in 2016 President Obama has outlined his ambition of growing R&D funding by 6%, to $146 billion in his 2016 budget proposal. |
Bio-IT World
April 15, 2003
James Golden |
Sequence Signatures and Homeland Security The bio-IT community has a unique opportunity to contribute to national biodefense. |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2006
Gregory Juckett |
Avian Influenza: Preparing for a Pandemic Preparing for a new influenza pandemic involves increasing global influenza surveillance and developing practical strategies for containing outbreaks at the source. |
Searcher
June 2006
Eva C. Perkins |
Is the Price of Cheap Chicken Bird Flu? Information professionals are faced with a situation in which our skills are called upon to soothe the public with reassuring data about the avian flu. |
Popular Mechanics
January 15, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Decry Proposed Rules to Secure Bio Research Labs New proposals put forward by Congress and supported by a recently released federal study are roiling researchers at labs that work with biological agents. |
BusinessWeek
February 9, 2004
Catherine Arnst |
What You Need To Know About Avian Flu The current avian flu outbreak in Asia is the fifth since 1997 to infect humans. This has raised a red flag for infectious disease experts, who fear the strain could mutate and spark a devastating flu pandemic. |
Chemistry World
June 18, 2012
Rebecca Trager |
US urged to invest in its research universities The US's prosperity and security depend upon greater public investment in its research universities over the next decade, the US National Research Council concluded in a 14 June report. But not everyone is in agreement. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Avian Influenza 101 Here is everything you need to now about avian influenza so that you can better protect yourself. |
Searcher
March 2002
Eva Perkins |
Bioterrorism Resources on the Internet: A Primer What is bioterrorism? Which organizations and governmental agencies publish in this area? Using the power of the beloved Internet, one can easily and quickly access a wealth of information. Here's how to do it... |
Salon.com
January 4, 2002
Jeffrey Benner |
Public money, private code The drive to license academic research for profit is stifling the spread of software that could be of universal benefit... |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2009 |
The White House Wants to Hear From Fools The Motley Fool was selected by the White House to sit down with a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors on Tuesday to discuss the proposal. |
National Defense
June 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Agencies Scramble to Create Vaccine Market Defense and Homeland Security are pursuing disparate vaccination programs to combat different needs for military and civilian populations. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 16, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Details of Regulatory Overhaul Coming to Light The Obama administration's plan for revamping the way financial institutions are overseen would give expanded powers to the Fed and make allowances for government takeovers of failing institutions. |
Managed Care
March 2002 |
Will HHS Proposal Mean Better Info - Or Tighter Spin? The flow of medical information from government health agencies could very well wind up being one of the victims of the anthrax scare... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
4 Future Plagues What future plagues await us? Let's have a look. |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
A Hot Zone In The Heartland Little could be done to contain a deadly avian flu outbreak. Right now, the U.S. has no national pandemic preparedness plan, either for treating large numbers of patients or for dealing with the resulting economic and social disruptions. |
National Defense
June 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Growing Public Interest In Genetic Science Sparks Some Bio-Security Concerns A growing movement of hobbyists who are carrying out biology experiments in garages, basements and community labs has drawn some interest from the FBI. |
Chemistry World
March 18, 2010
Anna Lewcock |
Universities face cuts as Hefce deals with first funding drop in years As the Higher Education Funding Council for England announces how it plans to distribute 7.4 billion in funding, uncertainties over future cuts and shifts in the political landscape cause anxiety in academia. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
Anthony Tao |
The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late? |
National Defense
July 2009 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories 7 Deadly Myth article draws comment. |
AFP eWire
February 24, 2006 |
Contributions to Colleges and Universities Grow by Nearly 5 Percent Contributions in 2005 increased to $25.6 billion, driven strongly by individual giving that accounted for nearly half of all giving. Giving by alumni grew by 6%, however the study uncovered a downward trend in the number of alumni willing to give. |
