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[Reason Magazine Full Feed] Can Scientific Censorship Stop Bioterrorism? - Reason Magazine: On the other hand, even as the NSABB recommends secrecy andrestriction, it acknowledges “that there are clear benefits to berealized for the public good in alerting humanity of this potentialthreat and in pursuing those aspects of this work that will allowgreater preparedness and the potential development of novelstrategies leading to future disease control.” First, avian flu ispercolating out in nature, and there is every possibility that itwill eventually mutate into a strain that infects people. The newresearch may have given public health officials a jumpstart on whatto look for as they monitor changes in natural avian flustrains.

[Science JournalFeeds] Policy: Adaptations of avian flu virus are a cause for concern ...: Authors: Berns KI, Casadevall A, Cohen ML, Ehrlich SA, Enquist LW, Fitch JP, Franz DR, Fraser-Liggett CM, Grant CM, Imperiale MJ, Kanabrocki J, Keim PS, Lemon SM, Levy SB, Lumpkin JR, Miller JF, Murch R, Nance ME, Osterholm MT, Relman DA, Roth JA, Vidaver AK

[Left Perspectives] Scientists release plague-carriers as an experiment | Left Perspectives: Don't forget swine flu and avian flu. There's a reason they were called “swine” flu and “avian” flu.

[Ninth Level Ireland] Ninth Level Ireland » Blog Archive » A Central Researcher in the ...: the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus that for the first time easily transmits between mammals, one critical voice has been missing: Yoshihiro Kawaoka. But today, Kawaoka speaks his mind …” (more).

[Florida Biotechnology News] New procedure rapidly induces nerve regeneration in mammals ...: The team described their success in applying this process to rats in two research papers published today. ... Florida Biotech: Schism over H5N1 Avian Flu Research Leaks Out http://t.co/Mfn0zPE2 .... Quick-Med Technologies; Quorum Biofilm; Roskamp Gulf War Center; Roskamp Institute; Sabrina Cohen Foundation; SACGHS; Saneron CCEL; Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute; Scripps Florida; Sid Martin Biotech Incubator; Sinapis Pharma; TauTaTis, Inc ...

[Military Schools] Part 2 — Avian Flu Fright: Politically Timed for Global ...: Consider also the fact the media’s mainstream has been heavily influenced, if not entirely controlled, by multi-national corporate sponsors protecting and advancing the interests of a relatively small number of global entities. Also recall that the focus of news providers, on any given day or hour, results from intelligence agency directives, according to reputable authorities including myriad retired news officials and intelligence officers.

[Florida Biotechnology News] Drs. Hyungbae Kwon and Hiroki Taniguchi Join Max Planck Florida ...: Neuroscientists Hyungbae Kwon, PhD and Hiroki Taniguchi, PhD will join the The Max Planck Florida Institute as research group leaders.  With the addition of Drs. Kwon and Taniguchi, MPFI will have eight research groups, each dedicated to investigating different aspects of the structure and function of neural circuits.  One of the ultimate challenges in biology is to understand neural circuits, which form the complex synaptic networks of the brain and determine who we are, how we think, and how we behave.

[Evidence Trumps Common Sense] Evidence Trumps Common Sense: Biosecurity and Academic ...: This past week the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity requested that scientists withhold publication on some of the detailed methods used for creating a form of the H5N1 avian flu virus that can be transmitted in an airborne form. According to news reports, scientists in the Netherlands and the US created a mutated form of the H5N1 virus that could be transmitted between mammals (ferrets) in airborne droplets such as those generated by coughs and sneezes. 

[The Loom] Flu Fighters | The Loom | Discover Magazine: The bird flu controversy first started to bubble up in September, when Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam described some of his unpublished results at a scientific meeting in Malta. It kicked into high gear when the National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity issued their ruling, which Fouchier and Yoshihiro Kawaoka have agreed to.

[Thechart.blogs.cnn.com] Details of new lab-created bird flu strain may be too dangerous to ...: Both journals and the investigators are now working on new manuscripts.  Keim said ultimately the content will be up to them.  "This is really a decision between the journals and their scientific investigators.  But we all need to have a discussion on how these experiments are done and how the results are communicated. This has to be an international discussion."

[TED Blog] TED Blog: Bird Flu Genome: Recipe for disaster?: Kurzweil and Joy make a strong case for keeping the bird flu genome sequence secret, but I don't find it compelling. This information is different from, say, the formula for a new form of poison gas.

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