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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...
Texas Biomed at Forefront of Sudan ebolavirus Vaccine Development
A Sudan ebolavirus vaccine and antibody therapeutic tested at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have been sent to Uganda as part...
NIH Grant Awarded to Study Evolution of Lyme Disease Bacteria in Deer Ticks
University of Rhode Island entomologist wins $2.6 million research funding to study Borrelia burgdorferi to better understand factors driving the...
Bat Virus Receptor Studies Vital to Predict Spillover Risk
Latest work unexpectedly shows two close bat virus relatives of human respiratory virus MERS-CoV use bat ACE2 as cell entry...
