Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 241
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 241.
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Question 1
Which family shares 4 Nobel prizes? A Nobel prize between wife and husband, followed by a second prize for the wife and a later prize to their daughter.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 14, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five battle of troy burkholderia mallei cannabis cirrhosis CPR greek soldiers irene joliot-curie kiss of life marie curie moroccan fishermen nobel prize peter safar pierre curie pseudomonas mallei Rene Laenne Source Type: blogs
Disruptive Technologies Push Bioterrorism To A Whole New Level
Terrorism is and will always be out there as we do not live in a world depicted in the movie Minority Report where crimes can be prevented by foreseeing them. We cannot and we do not want to supervise people’s lives as that would be the death of privacy. Also, disruptive technologies not only enhance the opportunities of true visionaries who want to make the world a better place but also the dreams of the bad guys ready for such dreadful acts as bioterrorism. We need to talk about it.
Biological sabotage campaigns and anthrax attacks: bioterrorism in the past
Although the term bioterrorism was coined in a book entitled...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics 3d printing artificial intelligence biological bioterror bioterrorism digestables GC1 Healthcare Medicine robotics wearables Source Type: blogs
Melioidosis in the United States
The following background data are abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series [1,2] (primary references available on request)
The first case of melioidosis in the Western hemisphere was diagnosed in the United States in 1945 – an American who had worked in the Panama Canal Zone during 1927 to 1928.
Sporadic autochthonous cases (five reports to 2013) have been reported from Arizona, Georgia, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Ohio and California. The fifth case of autochthonous melioidosis was reported in Ohio in 2013. Imported cases have originated from Laos, Mexico, Viet Nam and Thailand. Two cases imp...
Source: GIDEON blog - February 11, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Melioidosis Source Type: blogs
Burkholderia
Tom Coenye and Eshwar Mahenthiralingam present a new book on Burkholderia: From Genomes to Function In this book leading international investigators review key advances in Burkholderia research to provide timely overview. The topics covered include: genomic taxonomy and biodiversity, comparative genomics, molecular epidemiology, transcriptomics, proteomics, molecular pathogenesis of virulence in B. mallei/B. pseudomallei and the Burkholderia cepacia complex, molecular basis of phytopathogenicity and antibiotic resistance, signalling and biofilms, and the genomic biology of Burkholderia phages. The theme underpinning each ...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - June 18, 2013 Category: Microbiology Tags: Microbiology publications Bacteriology publications Molecular Biology publications Genomics publications Source Type: blogs
Proposed US policy on dual use research of concern
The US Office of Science and Technology Policy recently released proposed guidelines for maximizing the benefits and minimizing misuse of life sciences research. The measures establish oversight responsibilities for universities and other institutions that receive Federal funding:
Specifically, such institutions would be required to review their current life sciences research involving those pathogens or toxins deemed to be the most dangerous or most amenable to misuse, and then work with the researchers and funding agencies to develop appropriate risk mitigation plans.
This adds to a previously announced internal policy...
Source: virology blog - February 26, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Information avian influenza H5N1 bioterrorism DURC life sciences research OSTP viral virology virus Source Type: blogs
