The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will sponsor the advanced development of [Read more]
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is seeking partners to advance technology developed for in vitro diagnostic devices that are amenable to military hardening and integration with communication capabilities to support the medical [Read more]
To encourage the development and improvement of Infectious Diseases Next-Generation Sequencing (ID-NGS) analytical methods, precisionFDA – the community platform for NGS assay evaluation and regulatory science exploration – has launched the precisionFDA [Read more]
Vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental Zika virus vaccine, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced today. The experimental vaccine, known as rZIKV/D4Δ30-713, was developed [Read more]
By Saskia Popescu What do three days of a workshop on all things from anthrax to Zika look like? For one, busy. I recently attended the event held by George Mason University’s [Read more]
A new study published today in the journal Nature Biotechnology reveals that CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing can cause greater genetic damage in cells than was previously thought. These results create safety implications for [Read more]
A team of researchers who specialize in visualizing molecular structures has developed a 3D model based on the 1918 H1 pandemic influenza virus. They say their research, which appears online in Scientific [Read more]
New Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) collective protection tent system components were recently put to the test during an Air Force exercise at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, on June 20. During the [Read more]
By Jacqueline K. Olive, Peter J. Hotez, Ashish Damania, Melissa S. Nolan Summary Points A social movement of public health vaccine opposition has been growing in the United States in recent years; [Read more]
Researchers are taking stock of the emergence of Usutu virus in Europe, a mosquito-borne virus that circulates between birds. It can attack the nervous system of certain birds, such as blackbirds, and [Read more]
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