This week’s selections include the Marburg outbreak in Tanzania, a federal freeze on public health communications, avian influenza threat prompting accelerated flu subtyping for hospitalized patients, H5N1 vaccine development updates,…

National Institute of Standards and Technology Releases H5N1 Diagnostic Validation Material

Diagnosing Difficult-to-detect Pathogens in Central Nervous System Infections

Tools for Dealing with Radiation Exposures: IARPA Invests $3.8M from TEI-REX Program

Biodetection

Improved Dengue Test Recognizes Antibodies to All 4 Virus Types

Are We There Yet? Agent Agnostic Metagenome Sequencing for Biothreat Detection

Lacking Diagnostic Tools, Malaria Becomes Catch-All Diagnosis for Febrile Diseases in W. Africa

FDA Launches Health Care at Home Initiative

Gold Nanoparticles Used to Improve Infectious Disease Testing

Scientists Close in on TB Blood Test Which Could Detect Millions of Silent Spreaders

Tiny Microneedles Yield Big Results

USAMRIID Team Wins Award for Prototype Handheld Biothreat Detector

BARDA Looks to Advance Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (mNGS)

NIH Funds Continued Development of Maxim Bio’s At-Home Test for COVID and Flu

SOCOM Seeks Point-of-Need Water Testing System

Maxim Biomedical Secures $49.5M Manufacturing Award from HHS to Strengthen Pandemic Testing Efforts

OraSure Secures Distribution Agreement with Sapphiros

First Light Diagnostics Receives FDA Clearance for Rapid Anthrax Test

Chlorine Exposure Biomarkers in a Large Animal Model

Inflammatix Completes Development for Acute Infection and Sepsis Test System

New Method Improves Quantification of Ricin in Complex Matrices

HHS Awards $600M to 12 Manufacturers to Bolster COVID-19 Test Supply Chain

Biomarkers for Detection of Exposure to Nitrogen Mustards

Molecular Diagnostic Test for Six Biothreat Pathogens Receives FDA Clearance

Biodefense Headlines – 23 January 2025

Frameworks for Assessing Dual-Use Potential in Bioeconomy Research – Summary Discussion

World Vaccine Congress 2025