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  • Local researchers at center of Ebola fight

    08/04/2014 10:52:41 PM PDT · by blueplum · 6 replies
    UT-San Diego ^ | August 4, 2014 9:48pm | Bradley J. Fikes and Gary Robbins
    A tiny company in Sorrento Mesa helped develop the serum that may have saved the lives of two American aid workers stricken with the Ebola virus in Liberia in recent days. Mapp Biopharmaceutical and its experimental ZMapp product were virtually unknown until Monday, when word spread of the serum that seems to have stabilized Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol. Now the biotech firm is being publicly mentioned by everyone from health officials in numerous countries, to news organizations worldwide, to social-media users. The spotlight is also being cast on The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, where scientist...
  • Under suspicion: Hub mosque leader tied to radical groups

    10/29/2003 4:13:22 AM PST · by ninonitti · 9 replies · 855+ views
    Boston Herald | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | SPECIAL REPORT/by Jonathan Wells, Jack Meyers, Maggie Mulvihill and Kevin Wisniewski
    Last of two parts. The leader of the local Islamic organization preparing to build a major new mosque in Boston is allegedly linked to a network of Muslim companies and charitable groups in Virginia suspected by federal investigators of providing material support to Islamic terrorists. The chairman of the board of trustees of the Islamic Society of Boston, which has city approval to construct a $22 million cultural center and mosque in Roxbury, was also a leader of an Indiana-based Muslim organization known for its anti-Western rhetoric and for providing a platform for radical Islamists, some of whom have been...