The new shot-making strategy still needs to undergo approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It also needs tweaking before it would able to make the large amounts of vaccine needed during a flu outbreak, the editors of the journal Science wrote in a summary of the work.
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During a Million drug bust in Canada, police discovered a new synthetic drug that is 40 times stronger than heroin. One police officer involved in the bust was hospitalized with heart palpitations after briefly coming in contact with it, even though he was wearing a protective mask.
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Man posted video of kids smoking on Facebook, police say
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A non-profit consumer advocacy and research organization has filed a formal legal complaint with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) against several infant formula manufacturers it says are adding synthetic preservatives to certified organic infant formula.
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In a quest to make safer and more effective vaccines, scientists at the Biodesign Instituteà at Arizona State University have turned to a promising field called DNA nanotechnology to make an entirely new class of synthetic vaccines.
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Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today it has received a U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research Grant to advance the development of a low-cost, non-invasive surface electroporation (EP) delivery device and test its utility in combination with Inovio’s novel synthetic DNA vaccines against viruses with bioterrorism potential, including hanta, puumala, arenavirus and pandemic influenza.
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It is the latest craze in playing god with our food. And even the writer seem afraid; “Of course there are dangers, but The current generation of synthetic organisms is being built with genetic weaknesses that will disable them if they escape from the laboratory”
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U.S. troops are increasingly using an easy-to-get herbal mix called “Spice,” which mimics a marijuana high, is hard to detect and can bring on hallucinations that last for days.
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