[117219] in Cypherpunks
New defenses against biowarfare agents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sat Aug 28 19:28:09 1999
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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 15:04:07 -0700
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From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep1997/b09251997_bt514-97.html
DARPA selected Ronald Taylor, professor of
biochemistry in the School of Medicine of the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, to
receive the 1997 Award for Significant Technical
Achievement for his pioneering approach to the
treatment of biological warfare threat agents. His
methodology entails the use of red blood cells with
specially designed molecular "hooks" to
remove circulating biological warfare agents. There
are currently very few medical treatments
available for many biological warfare agents and
Taylor's bold innovation opens up an entirely
new and exceptionally powerful medical strategy for
treatment of biological warfare agent
exposure and possibly other life-threatening infections.
