Biodefense

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bioterrorism /chemical warfare

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• 3Biodefense is 'gift to humanity' The Homeland Security Department "is not constructed properly" to counter biological terrorism, said Dr.
• Biodefense is "not attractive to Big Pharma, which is making money off things we use a few times a day," says Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland.
• Biodefense is most often discussed in the context of biowar or bioterrorism, and is generally considered a military or emergency response term.
• BioDefense is aggressively pursuing its technology transfer initiative by incorporating the distributed power of open source development in individual biotechnology fields related to biodefense research beginning with its Stem Cell commercialization initiative.
• Ebright told The Scientist that NIH's spending on biodefense is leaving critical basic research going undone.

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