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- noun UK Alternative spelling of
biodefense .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents
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Examples
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Gary Gaugler/Science Photo Library at a biodefence meeting on February 24, Joseph Michael, a material scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, presented analyses of three letters sent to the New York Post and to the offices of Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy.
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The deadly bacterial spores mailed to victims in the U.S. anthrax attacks, scientists say, share a chemical 'fingerprint' that is not found in bacteria from the flask linked to Bruce Ivins, the biodefence researcher implicated in the crime.
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Deadly germs may be more likely to be spread due to a biodefence lab accident than a biological attack by terrorists.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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Deadly germs may be more likely to be spread due to a biodefence lab accident than a biological attack by terrorists.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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"This horse is out of the barn," Professor Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, told the journal
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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He was Bruce Ivins, a disgruntled scientist working at the Army's biodefence labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
The Guardian World News Nicolaus Mills 2011
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He was Bruce Ivins, a disgruntled scientist working at the Army's biodefence labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
The Guardian World News Nicolaus Mills 2011
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They determined that biodefence researcher Bruce Ivins was the sole perpetrator; he committed suicide in July 2008, before indictment.
Scientific American 2010
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IMVAMUNER which triggered the next option in the contract and furthermore we received funding from the US to advance our research in Ebola and Marburg viruses, which in time may complement our biodefence portfolio.
Bavarian Nordic Publishes its 2010 Third Quarterly Results - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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"The US government needs to move more aggressively to reduce the threat of bioterrorism," its website says. warned about botulinum as a bioterror agent, and their colleagues, are high-level advisors on biodefence in the US government and on the Graham-Talent Commission.
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