TweetOfficials with the federal government are preparing guidance to aid local laboratories in implementing the new policy on the oversight of life-sciences dual-use research of concern. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced … Read More

The Delaware Court of Chancery denied SIGA Technologies’ motion for re-argument that was filed on October 4, upholding the court’s original September 22 decision regarding compensation for PharmAthene, Inc. Read More

Five hundred health workers have received vaccinations against smallpox, allowing them to deal with potential biological terror attacks at the 2012 Olympics. Read More

Cynthia Bascetta explained the challenges in developing CBRN countermeasures to the House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications this week. Read More

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and possible 2012 GOP presidential candidate John Bolton has expressed his belief that all defense spending should be protected from potential budget cuts that may occur with a GOP leadership of congress. Read More

New Jersey’s Department of Health and Senior Services has requested that local health departments inform retail food establishments with a buffet or a self-service salad bar about a terrorist threat to poison food. Read More

Researchers at the University of Hawaii and a Honolulu start-up company have developed a hyperspectral sensor system that may be able to detect biological and chemical weapons. Read More

The anthrax-tainted heroin that lead to 47 cases of anthrax infection in Scotland could soon be back on the streets, health officials have warned. Read More

A recently leaked cable dated December 30, 2008 details the United States’ investigation into an attempt by a Syrian institution to purchase certain materials that could be used as components for chemical or biological weapons. Read More

A congressional investigation found that the planned missile defense system for Europe may risk delays and prove unreliable with cost over-runs. Read More

A new rule has expanded the list of potential health ailments veterans of the Vietnam War can claim that Agent Orange exposure was responsible for, giving them additional entitlement to disability compensation. Read More

Experts in Tayside, Scotland, believe that 10 deaths in early 2010 linked to anthrax-tainted heroin may be linked to fewer drug deaths as compared with last year. Read More

Officials at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, have signed an agreement outlining how to clean up the groundwater contamination located in Area B. Read More

A series of recently leaked news cables from the U.S. Embassy reported that a bioterror attack in India could be devastating. Read More

Scientist Vyom Parashar of the Nanotechnology Application Center of Allahabad University in India has developed a new technology that uses nanomagnets to detect the presence of sulfur, which could be used to identify bombs and chemical warfare agents. Read More

A Plainfield, Indiana, woman has claimed that an ex-boyfriend may have poisoned her with a toxic substance like anthrax or ricin that has lead to multiple health problems. Read More

The National Center for Food Protection and Defense at the University of Minnesota founded in 2004, has partnered with the food industry to combat potential bioattacks on the U.S. food chain. Read More

The National Academy of Sciences has stated they were surprised by the FBI Read More

An article that describes complete protection of non-human primates against an extremely pathogenic monkeypox challenge after vaccination with Inovio Pharmaceuticals Read More

Universal Detection Technology, a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies, and Powersafe Pty Ltd., have created a joint relationship to combine the two companies’ products to protect facilities from bioterrorism and other infectious health thre Read More

PharmaJet, Inc., and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to combine PharmaJet Read More

An FDA advisory panel has backed a new strategy for anthrax vaccine researched developed by its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Read More

Former U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease researcher John Ezzell and attorney Paul Kemp recently made detailed statements about the 2001 anthrax case that affected 17 people and killed five. Read More

Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, issued a statement that if the nation Read More

The head of the National Counterterrorism Center has issued a statement that, while the recent release of documents on WikiLeaks undermines U.S. national security, the country is much safer from the possibility of a CBRN attack than it was in 2001. Read More

The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Richmond, Kentucky, is set to receive shipments of storage containers used to safely transport chemical weapons to processing facilities from closing facilities in Alabama and Arkansas. Read More

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Aduro BioTech, a clinical-stage immunotherapy company, with the Read More

The non-profit public policy research organization Active Voice has launched an extensive website about the chemical substance Agent Orange, a dioxin that has affected the lives over 3 million Vietnamese during and after the Cold War conflict with the Uni Read More

On Friday, Russia opened its sixth plant for the destruction of chemical weapons supplies in the city of Pochep in order to neutralize chemical weapons. Read More

A $35 million clean-up is currently underway at a former World War II U.S. military depot in Columboola on the Western Downs in Australia as experts search for dumped chemical weapons, many of which may contain mustard gas. Read More