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Meanings of biodefense in English
Procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents.
Synonyms
Examples for "biodefence"
Examples for "biodefence"
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Acambis ousted its chief executive last March and has since begun to diversify away from biodefence.
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The Biodefence report assesses the changing landscape of threats and what can be done to protect the country from both deliberate and accidental events.
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We have a running joke here in the military's chemical- biological defense program.
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Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is a known biological defense threat.
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About 45 percent of the near billion-dollar research portfolio goes towards chemical and biological defense.
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But outside homeland security and biological defense circles, experts are deeply divided over how realistic the threat actually is.
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At the time, Akin said women have a biological defense against pregnancies that might be caused by such rapes.
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The inducements have grown more sophisticated, but they continue to rely on the body's biological defences.
Usage of biodefense in English
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Grant money was available from the Army to do basic research in biodefense.
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A decade later, the country had spent $19 billion on biodefense research.
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In March, the American Society for Microbiology will hold its biodefense research meeting in Baltimore.
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Emergent wants to buy Protein Sciences to diversify beyond its biodefense business, the newspaper said.
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But the Bush administration soon established a biodefense program.
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Wired.com talked to Garrett about biodefense, the Ground Zero plume and what can be learned.
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She analyzes US biodefense strategy and vaccine development policy and has published a book on vaccines and national security.
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For the last five years, some of us have argued that the government's biodefense priorities are screwed up, massively.
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For years, some scientists and public health experts have warned that biodefense research accidents are a greater threat than bioterrorists.
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But the real question, thus far, seems to been whether the boom in biodefense research has actually made us safer.
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Research on biodefense led to research on the immune system, which led to more general research on the human body.
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The CDC plans to visit Texas A&M to interview officials, inspect facilities and decide whether to permit further biodefense research.
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All it took was the suicide of Army biodefense scientist Dr. Bruce Ivins, a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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He resigned as executive director of a Virginia university's biodefense center 10 months ago while facing internal strife over his stewardship.
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The United States won't close its borders if there's an overseas bird flu outbreak, announced the Bush Administration's biodefense advisor yesterday.
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The uproar, however, is far from over: Flu researchers and biodefense experts continue to argue over the findings' safety and scientific value.
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Frequent collocations
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