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News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week's selections include a prion disease diagnostic innovation challenge, drug repurposing for chemical threat MCMs, and personalized protective biosystems. ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration lifted the pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on April 23, 2021, but the labels and fact ...

The novel COVID-19 test uses a mass spectrometer paired with a powerful machine-learning platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 in nasal swabs. The mass spectrometer can analyze samples in minutes, with the entire process ...

A team of top scientists from the University of Bristol have announced the formation of a new biotech company that is developing ground-breaking and newly patented potential treatments for coronavirus. Bristol-based Halo ...

News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week's selections include calls for a Pandemic Treaty, emerging concepts in vaccine adjuvants, and Darpa's epigenetic signatures program. POLICY ...

Spring has sprung, and there is a sense of relief in the air. After one year of lockdowns and social distancing, more than 171 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in ...

The federal government has asked Australia’s medical and vaccine regulators to urgently consider the European Medicines Agency’s finding of a possible link between the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine and rare blood clots. This ...

Understanding the mechanisms of how bats regulate immune responses to clear infections and prevent excessive inflammation may lead to a deeper understanding of the regulatory circuitry of the human immune system and ...

In a carefully controlled clinical trial, Michigan Medicine researchers will examine whether participants who are highly allergic or have a mast cell disorder possess a greater risk for a reaction to the ...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Duke University has developed a highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic test for Ebola virus (EBOV) infection. In monkeys infected with Ebola, this diagnostic, called the D4-assay, ...

New research has for the first time compared images of the protein spikes that develop on the surface of cells exposed to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to the protein spike of the SARS-CoV-19 ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded funding to support local efforts to increase vaccine uptake by expanding COVID-19 vaccine programs and ensuring greater equity and access to ...

Antibiotic resistance – the ability of harmful bacteria to survive treatment by antibiotics – is a growing threat. It is making it harder to treat life-threatening infections, including tuberculosis, MRSA, and gonorrhoea ...

The deactivating effects of heat and sunlight on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are consistent across different variants of the virus, according to new research from the Department of Homeland Security ...

On the first day of the UK campaign for COVID-19 vaccination, there were reports of two cases of anaphylaxis--a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction--within minutes of administration of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine. ...

As COVID-19 has swept across the globe, it seems that high transmission rates have partly been driven by a large number of people catching the virus, not experiencing symptoms and then unknowingly ...

The faster-spreading B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 first detected in the United Kingdom is quickly on its way to becoming the dominant variant of the virus in the United States, according to a ...

“You can’t fix what you don’t measure” is a maxim in the business world. And it holds true in the world of public health as well. Early in the pandemic, the United ...

This week's selections include the UK's new health security agency; promising real-world data on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness; and tax deductible hand sanitizer. POLICY + INITIATIVES Britain to Launch New Health Security Agency ...

Ebola is back in Guinea in West Africa, five years after the largest Ebola epidemic ever known ended – but it has not come back the way we expected it to. Eighteen ...