Meanings of biodefense in English

Grant money was available from the Army to do basic research in biodefense.

A decade later, the country had spent $19 billion on biodefense research.

In March, the American Society for Microbiology will hold its biodefense research meeting in Baltimore.

Emergent wants to buy Protein Sciences to diversify beyond its biodefense business, the newspaper said.

But the Bush administration soon established a biodefense program.

Wired.com talked to Garrett about biodefense, the Ground Zero plume and what can be learned.

She analyzes US biodefense strategy and vaccine development policy and has published a book on vaccines and national security.

For the last five years, some of us have argued that the government's biodefense priorities are screwed up, massively.

For years, some scientists and public health experts have warned that biodefense research accidents are a greater threat than bioterrorists.

But the real question, thus far, seems to been whether the boom in biodefense research has actually made us safer.

Research on biodefense led to research on the immune system, which led to more general research on the human body.

The CDC plans to visit Texas A&M to interview officials, inspect facilities and decide whether to permit further biodefense research.

All it took was the suicide of Army biodefense scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins, a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

He resigned as executive director of a Virginia university's biodefense center 10 months ago while facing internal strife over his stewardship.

The United States won't close its borders if there's an overseas bird flu outbreak, announced the Bush Administration's biodefense advisor yesterday.

The uproar, however, is far from over: Flu researchers and biodefense experts continue to argue over the findings' safety and scientific value.