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	<title>FAS Strategic Security Blog &#187; Biosecurity</title>
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		<title>Is The US Prepared For Bioweapons Decontamination?</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/04/is-the-us-prepared-for-bioweapons-decontamination.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report by the UPMC Center for Biosecurity suggests that the US remains unprepared for the task of decontaminating the site of a major biological weapon attack.  Decontamination after the comparatively small-scale Anthrax attacks of 2001 is estimated to have cost hundreds of millions of dollars, while shuttering some facilities for as long as two years.  By comparison, the costs of a larger scale attack on a major city could be staggering.]]></description>
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		<title>Soviet Bioweapon Researchers Discuss Past, Future</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/04/soviet-bioweapon-researchers-discuss-past-future.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two leading Russian biological weapons scientists presented their inside view of the Soviet bioweapons program at a March 29th panel sponsored by the George Mason University Biodefense Program.  Dr. Guennady Lepioshkin, who headed the Anthrax production plant at Stepnogorsk in Kazakhstan, and GMU Professor Sergey Popov, who headed projects at the Vector Institute and other laboratories in Obolensk, Russia, presented candid personal accounts of life as bioweapons researchers.   Beyond their individual tales, the session offered several lessons that remain relevant to the modern discussion of biosecurity – cautionary tales about the publication of dual use research and the destructive potential of synthetic biology.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol Briefing on Biological Weapon Threats</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/capitol-briefing-on-biological-weapon-threats.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A March 19th briefing at the US Capitol brought together a panel of experts to discuss the threat of biological weapons.  The briefing, titled “Deterring Biological Threats”, was hosted by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and focused heavily on the historical records of the destructive potential of the Cold War bioweapons programs in the US and the USSR.  With more modern threats, such as Al Qaeda’s well-documented search for Anthrax, the amount of interest in biological attacks appears to be increasing.  The means of actually deterring and preventing these biological threats remain less clear.]]></description>
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		<title>New Industry Biosecurity Conference To Host Experts from Government, Academia</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/new-industry-biosecurity-conference-to-host-experts-from-government-academia.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tight funding environment for academic research, coupled with rapid technological advances, has created an environment where innovation will increasingly occur in industry and at start-up companies.  Regulation in new fields, such as synthetic biology, trails the cutting edge of research, creating an extra need for industry to be involved in the discussion surrounding biosecurity.

A new conference hopes to fill this role by bringing top Administration and Agency officials directly to the site of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) annual meeting.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Broad Consensus on Gene Synthesis Guidelines</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/01/broad-consensus-on-gene-synthesis-guidelines.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/01/broad-consensus-on-gene-synthesis-guidelines.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Participants at a January 11th forum on Minimizing the Risks of Synthetic DNA, held at the AAAS, appeared to be in general agreement on the principles behind proposed US guidelines to safeguard the rapidly advancing technology of gene synthesis.]]></description>
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		<title>Debating New Biosecurity Research Regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/debating-new-biosecurity-research-regulations.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/10/debating-new-biosecurity-research-regulations.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Dodson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Senate consideration of a new biosecurity bill has been delayed to accommodate requests for additional information from the Administration.  ]]></description>
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		<title>New Bioethics Council to Advise the White House</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/06/new-bioethics-council-to-advise-the-white-house.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/06/new-bioethics-council-to-advise-the-white-house.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cvos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was reported this week that the Presidents Council on Bioethics was disbanded. The Council, appointed by the Bush Administration, was often accused of taking a more ideological than scientific perspective in its reports and advice. In its place, President Obama will convene a new bioethics commission.]]></description>
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		<title>Science Magazine Biodefense News &#8211; Army Bans Pathogen Work</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/05/science-magazine-biodefense-news-army-bans-pathogen-work.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/05/science-magazine-biodefense-news-army-bans-pathogen-work.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cvos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/?p=1296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Science Magazine is reporting that the Army has banned all pathogen research at one of its labs at the Armed Forced Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, DC. This decision was made December 2, 2008 as a result of an earlier failed Biological Surety Inspection, and not made public. Science reports that &#8220;officials found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS, DHS and CDC Webcast on Swine Flu</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/hhs-dhs-and-cdc-webcast-on-swine-flu.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/hhs-dhs-and-cdc-webcast-on-swine-flu.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cvos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at 1pm EST HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and acting Director of the CDC Richard Besser will be webcast answering questions about Swine Flu from the American people.  The webcast will be available at www.hhs.gov and questions can be emailed to hhsstudio@hhs.gov. The World Health Oraganization has now raised the Pandemic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers Worldwide Rally to Help Scientist Exposed to Ebola</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/03/researchers-worldwide-rally-to-help-scientist-exposed-to-ebola.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/03/researchers-worldwide-rally-to-help-scientist-exposed-to-ebola.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cvos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SciecneInsider has the details surrounding an Ebola researcher who pricked her finger with a needle during an experiment last week. Virologists around the world are collaborating to try to save their colleagues life. An exposure to Ebola from a needle stick does not often lead to infection with the deadly illness, but a group of [...]]]></description>
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