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#biosecurity

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Bruce Mirken

"The administration's actions are gutting our deterrence from biological threats," said Beth Cameron, PhD, a senior adviser to the Brown University #Pandemic Center and a former director at the White House National Security Council. "Canceling this investment is a signal that we are changing our posture on pandemic preparedness," she added, "and that is not good for the American people."

medpagetoday.com/infectiousdis

www.medpagetoday.comIn Axing mRNA Contract, Trump Delivers New Blow to Biosecurity, Former Officials SayU.S. could be at the mercy of other countries in the next pandemic
#health#biosecurity#research
Euractiv

Securing Europe’s #BiotechFuture: How can #biosecurity drive competitiveness? [Advocacy Lab Content]: The recent Euractiv event “Securing Europe’s #BiotechFuture - How can #biosecurity drive competitiveness?” brought together key stakeholders to discuss how biosecurity can support Europe’s biotech sector. euractiv.com/section/tech/vide

Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

A friend of a friend in Cromwell has hosted an MPI fruit fly trap for 16 years without catching anything. Recently the trap captured its first fruit fly (a male), but we've yet to see an announcement from MPI.

Strange that.

Even worse, the MPI person who collected the trap said they've lost funding & will no longer be maintaining the traps, starting later this year.

What a dumb move. The Luxon government seems determined to save money in all the wrong places.

#BioSecurity#MPI#FruitFly
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Honey

Went and picked honey last week from my supplier, a bio security Officer for Varroa (Varroa development officer). The jar on the right is what I normally get, ‘cause honey. 🍯🐝

Not now. I can only get the middle and left size. Why?

The impact of #VarroaMite on local hives. The example he gave was from our OS SE Island neighbours where the number of hives went 2000 to 8. This is the future of bees in Victoria.

#AgVic #Ag / #Victoria / #Varroa / #BeeMAX / #BioSecurity / #agriculture <agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecu> / <en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa>

Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

“Unless compelling evidence emerges that mirror life would not pose extraordinary dangers, we believe that mirror bacteria and other mirror organisms, even those with engineered biocontainment measures, should not be created...We therefore recommend that research with the goal of creating mirror bacteria not be permitted, and that funders make clear that they will not support such work.”

Dr Kate Adamala, a synthetic biologist at the University of Minnesota and co-author on the report, was working towards a mirror cell but changed tack last year after studying the risks in detail.

“We should not be making mirror life,” she said.
theguardian.com/science/2024/d
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"Our analysis suggests that mirror bacteria would likely evade many immune mechanisms mediated by chiral molecules, potentially causing lethal infection in humans, animals, and plants. They are likely to evade predation from natural-chirality phage and many other predators, facilitating spread in the environment. We cannot rule out a scenario in which a mirror bacterium acts as an invasive species across many ecosystems, causing pervasive lethal infections in a substantial fraction of plant and animal species, including humans. Even a mirror bacterium with a narrower host range and the ability to invade only a limited set of ecosystems could still cause unprecedented and irreversible harm."
Science: science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc
#science #biology #biosecurity

The Guardian · ‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe researchBy Ian Sample
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