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Protection from Biothreats: DOD to Modernize Medical Countermeasures Development
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need to alter how the DoD conducts research, development and acquisition of medical countermeasure and...
DoD Awards ENA Respiratory $4.38M for Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Development
Goal is to add new medical countermeasure (MCM) against known and emerging viral respiratory threats ENA Respiratory has been awarded...
How Organ-on-a-chip Models Could Grease the Drug Development Pipeline
Organ-on-a-chip models allow researchers to conduct studies closer to real-life conditions Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of...
Killing Anthrax More Quickly with Hot Air Decontamination
New method to decrease the amount of time it takes for hot air decontamination to kill bacterial spores, such as...
New Material Helps Train First Responders on Biothreats
NIST developed a new harmless surrogate threat material based on yeast, rather than inactivated pathogens, which can be used to...
DARPA Pursues Advanced Threat-Detection for Crop Defense
DARPA’s Foundational Security for Food Systems (FS2) program will explore a pathway-based approach to provide advanced threat detection and warning...
