Dr. Sen Pei Discusses Challenges in Forecasting Antimicrobial Resistance
In this interview, Dr. Sen Pei discusses the challenges in forecasting antimicrobial resistance, the focus of a paper published this ...
Tag: Bioinformatics
Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment (BRaVE) Initiative Backed by $105M DOE Funding
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $105 million for research in biopreparedness. This funding, provided by the Office of Science, ...
Virginia Institutes Partner to Join National Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence Network
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the UVA Biocomplexity Institute have been selected to help establish ...
Where is Testing Needed Most During Pandemic Surges? WVU Researchers Develop Machine Learning Prediction Tools
West Virginia University scientists are applying machine learning and geographic data to understand where places with low vaccination rates need ...
BugSeq Awarded BARDA DRIVe Funding to Develop Next-Gen Diagnostics for Any Respiratory RNA Virus
BugSeq Bioinformatics, a biotech company developing next-generation microbiology assays, has entered a public-private partnership with the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research ...
Call for Nominations: Cyberbiosecurity in Southeast Asia – Preventing Harmful Exploitation of Biological Data
The National Academies seeks experts to serve on the Planning Committee for Engaging Scientists to Prevent Harmful Exploitation of Advanced ...
Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center Website Now Available
The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC), an initiative funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
SARS-CoV-2 Levels in Wastewater Correlate with Regional Patient Data
Wastewater-based epidemiology, which represents the collective waste of the human population in a given locale, can detect viral pathogens and ...
Penn State Researchers Will Map 700 of Anthrax Bacteria’s Closest Relatives
Study to enhance CDC’s capacity to rapidly detect emerging infectious disease agents To enhance the early detection of novel infectious ...
Aidar Health’s Rapid Patient Triage System Gains Federal Funding From BARDA
BARDA is collaborating with Aidar Health, Inc. to develop and validate the company’s Aidar COVID-19 decompensation index (AIDI), a new ...
Big-Data Competition Opens to Help Children at Risk for Severe COVID-19
Methods to distinguish children at risk for severe COVID-19 complications, including conditions such as MIS-C are needed to enable development ...
Tracing and Controlling Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Scientists have discovered a route of introduction for Highly Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) H5N8 into Japan and, in parallel, ...
UC San Diego Awarded NIH Funding for Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx)
University of California San Diego was awarded five Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) projects by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), totaling ...
Reimagining US Public Health with Robust Application of Systems Engineering
Of the many things that COVID-19 has made abundantly clear to us, surely one of them is a newfound realization ...
Artificial Intelligence Collaboration Seeking to Hasten COVID-19 Insights
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care professionals and researchers have been confined mostly to using local and national datasets to ...
COVIDScholar: AI Tool Sifts Through Thousands of Papers to Guide Researchers
The scientific community worldwide has mobilized with unprecedented speed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging research output is ...
The EU Not Ready for the Release of Gene Drive Organisms into the Environment
Within the last decades, new genetic engineering tools for manipulating genetic material in plants, animals and microorganisms are getting large ...
NUS-Led Team Develops Artificial Intelligence Platform to Combat Infectious Diseases
Novel tool identifies optimal drug combination therapies at unprecedented speed As the COVID-19 crisis continues to develop, researchers around the ...
New COVID-19 Data Tools Coming Online to Help Tackle Pandemic
Thousands of researchers across the globe have been working tirelessly to study the new coronavirus, generating enormous amounts of information. ...
Sequencing the DNA of Patients Screened for Coronavirus Might Save Lives
Scientists should start sequencing the genomes of coronavirus patients. We should look for DNA differences between patients who are severely ...
