The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a neurologic disease of cattle, in an eleven-year old cow in Alabama. This animal never entered slaughter [Read more]
Transit is increasingly becoming the backdrop against which pandemics unfold, making the need for emergency preparedness for outbreaks ever more important. SARS, MERS, H1N1, and even the seasonal flu provide opportunities to [Read more]
In the increasingly interconnected and complex world, the ability to uniquely identify individuals, generate investigative leads, and attribute trace-level evidence are becoming essential for intelligence applications, national security, and criminal justice. In [Read more]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to develop methodologies to rapidly characterize the virulence of existing and emerging biothreats to inform risk assessments, disease preparedness and response activities. Traditional pathogen [Read more]
Scientists have developed a fast and easy-to-use point-of-care diagnostic test that could one day help doctors and hospitals head off the rapid spread of the flu. The gold standard of flu diagnostics [Read more]
An international team of scientists, led by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has determined the 3-D atomic structure of more than 1,000 proteins that are potential drug and vaccine targets, to [Read more]
The U.S. military’s Joint Product Director for Biological Detection Systems (JPD-BDS) is conducting a market survey to identify sources capable of manufacturing fully automated biological warfare agent identifiers using Raman Spectroscopy. JPD-BDS [Read more]
The first large-scale epidemiological study of Chagas disease in the United States confirms that the ‘silent killer’ is a major public health challenge for the country. A study of almost 5,000 Latin [Read more]
The Naval Medical Research Unit 6 (NAMRU-6) is seeking to purchase laboratory reagents to be used for molecular diagnosis of Influenza virus, adenovirus, Metapneumovirus, Enterovirus, Rhinovirus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Zika virus [Read more]
Microbes rule the world. Constituting some of the earliest forms of life, today they represent the vast majority of living things on our planet by number of individuals. In fact these microorganisms [Read more]
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