Showing posts with label GOF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOF. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

CIDRAP On The GOF Research Pause Debate

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9446   One of the topics we’ve revisited frequently over the past several years has centered around  the wisdo...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Thebulletin.org: Making Viruses Deadlier – An Accident Waiting To Happen

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The Doomsday Clock from TheBulletin.org   # 8952     The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – founded by former Manhattan Proje...
Monday, August 04, 2014

mBio: The Risks & Benefits Of `GOF’ Experimentation On Pathogens With Pandemic Potential

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 8911     Somehow, between the Ebola news, and the fact that it was published on Wednesday ( instead of mB...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The Laboratory Bio-Safety Backlash Continues

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Credit CDC   # 8892   The groundswell of concern over controversial ` gain of function’ laboratory experiments, and recent ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

The Journal Nature Weighs In On Lab Accidents & Biosafety

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    # 8890   In the wake of revelations regarding laboratory safety lapses both at the FDA and the CDC involving ` select ag...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Updating The Cambridge Working Group

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Credit CDC PHIL # 8872   Two weeks ago in Reshuffling The NSABB & A New Biosecurity Working Group Emerges , we learned...
Friday, July 18, 2014

ECDC Comment On Gain Of Function Research

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Credit CDC PHIL # 8847   My thanks to Dr. Marc Lipsitch for tweeting the link to the ECDC’s comment on recent GOF ( Gain of F...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

SciAm: Branswell On Lab Biosafety

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      # 8836   I’ve been away from my desk for most of the day, but I wanted to recommend ( very highly ) the following Scientific...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Upcoming House Sub-Committee Hearing On Lab Safety

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CDC Anthrax Timeline – Credit CDC # 8830   Even before Friday’s announcement by the CDC that one of their labs had accidentally ...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Debate Over Gain Of Function Studies Continues

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID # 8793 ` Gain of Function’ research (aka GOF ) seeks to enhance the virulence , t...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

CIDRAP: Lipstich & Galvani Respond To Fouchier & Kawaoka On GOF Studies

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BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID       # 8764   They say ` Timing is everything’.   A nd given the timing of toda...

CDC Statement On Possible Lab Exposure To Anthrax

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Electron micrograph (SEM) depicted spores from the Sterne strain of Bacillus anthracis bacteria. – Credit CDC   # 8763   Based...