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Yet BioShield hasn't transformed much of anything besides expanding the federal bureaucracy. Most of the big pharmaceutical and biotech firms want nothing to do with developing biodefense drugs. The little companies that are vying for deals say they are being stymied by an opaque and glacially slow contracting process...
Administration officials say the criticism misses the many steps being taken to shore up the country's biodefenses. They point out that the U.S. has been stockpiling countermeasures, such as 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine. Since 2001 HHS has doled out $5.5 billion to state and local governments for...
But all these methods are just stopgap solutions, since a full-fledged flu pandemic would kill millions of people before the vats made enough vaccine to meet demand. Ultimately, vaccine makers may need to go straight to the source: the flu virus' genetic code. By extracting snippets of viral RNA...
This plug-and-play approach borrows from gene therapy, in which tiny pieces of DNA are delivered directly to circulating immune cells in the bloodstream. The DNA packets are painted onto tiny gold pellets (an ideal delivery medium) and shot into the body at supersonic speeds with the press of...
Although the current threat of avian flu may have passed before the next-generation vaccines make it to market, the work won't be wasted. The upgrade will make even the annual flu vaccines more effective and will prepare us better for when the next pandemic threat looms. CURRENT METHOD...