Archive for the ‘Bio-terrorism / Terrorism’ Category
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Researchers at the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization behavior, forecast potential behavior based on these rules, and, most importantly, to network with other analysts examining the same subjects.
SOMA ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
If terrorists were to attack with a dirty bomb, medical authorities should be prepared to treat children differently from adults because their developing bodies would absorb and respond to the radiation exposure in distinct ways, according to a new study from the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Researchers presented the findings ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
New technology for tracking down builders of homemade bombs
Analytical Chemistry
Researchers in Australia are reporting development of a portable device to help track down builders of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) -- those homemade fertilizer bombs that have wreaked such havoc in terrorist attacks around the world. Their study appears in the ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
The National Science Foundation (NSF), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has awarded Rutgers University two grants to lead research on detecting smuggled nuclear materials. The work aims to thwart terrorists from using such materials to develop "dirty bombs" or environmental contaminants that could sicken large ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
NEWS
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADLS), announced the commencement of its collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the lead governmental institute supporting biodefense research, under which the NIAID will conduct studies to evaluate cethromycin, the Company's late-stage antibiotic, as a treatment for anthrax and ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop new drugs to combat agents of bioterrorism.
The one-year, $880,000 grant will fund the college's new Institute for Advanced Pharmaceutical Sciences. The center will discover new and effective medicines to ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Could Harry Potter be guarding the secrets of the British government's post 9/11 response to the terrorist threat? Judith Rauhofer of the University of Central Lancashire seems to think so.
Rauhofer has made a study of JK Rowling's fictional child wizard and suggests, in a research paper published in Inderscience's International ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today released for display in the Federal Register the Department's new roadmap for developing and purchasing medical countermeasures against a host of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats.
The "Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) Implementation Plan for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Threats" ...
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