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...proposal to bring a high-level biodefense research facility to Boston received federal approval on Tuesday, creating a new opportunity for researchers at Harvard and other local research institutions to perform tests on pathogens such as Ebola and Anthrax in their most dangerous forms...
...education, awarded NetImpact a $125 million contract to install MDS 200, a portable disease-detection device, and NetCare 7.0, a software package that stores and analyzes medical data. MDS 200, which can run on battery or solar power in areas without electricity, instantly screens for viruses like HIV and Ebola in blood or water samples. Test results are routed to NetCare 7.0, which also lets clinicians quickly peruse system-recommended treatments. NetImpact will start equipping Malian hospitals with labs and computers early next year...
...Boston area also hopes to net a top-security “Level-4” research center, where more dangerous agents such as the Ebola virus could be studied. Boston University is in the running for a $1.6 billion government grant to fund the facility, which Kasper said would aid the new biodefense center in its research...
...Epicyte's spotless laboratory, Hiatt is taking no chances. Tiny tobacco leaves injected with herpes-antibody genes fill the incubators--a backup, he says, in case corn is outlawed. And the company is branching out, developing plant-grown antibodies to fight respiratory syncytial virus, treat Alzheimer's, battle weaponized Ebola and even attack sperm--a kind of biopharm birth control...
...Most alarming, though, is the rising fatality rate. During SARS' international onset some two months ago, when doctors had only a handful of cases to examine, the mortality rate was thought to be about 5%?scary, but not exactly on the scale of Ebola. What's more, those most at risk were typically the elderly and the chronically ill. But as the cases have piled up, so have the fatalities, including healthier individuals in their late 20s or early 30s. In Vietnam the death rate is around 8%, Singapore at nearly 12% and Toronto 13.5%. In Hong Kong, where baffled...