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Channing Professor of Medicine Dennis L. Kasper, who will head the center, said worry about the nation’s susceptibility to terrorist attacks has increased the demand for research on deadly microscopic pathogens like anthrax...
...Kasper said the money for researching the diseases, which will be spread over five years, is long overdue. Although the only smallpox vaccine currently available was created in the 1970’s, and the anthrax vaccine was created over 50 years ago, he said that relatively few resources have been allocated for the study of such diseases...
Recently-acquired knowledge of the entire genetic sequences of many deadly pathogens will aid tremendously in the research, he said. Scientists hope to duplicate proteins created by pathogens in order to survive, and then create drugs to inhibit those particular proteins, destroying the pathogen, Kasper said...
...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...
...main lines of business, sneakers and apparel. "And kids too found us not to be relevant." As declining sales forced the company to cut back on R. and D., the styling of Reeboks across the board fell out of favor. John Shanley, an analyst with Wells Fargo Van Kasper, puts it this way: "Reebok shoes started looking like they belonged on the shelf of an orthopedic patient...