Aptitude Awarded Up to $54M BARDA Funding for At-Home Diagnostics
BARDA is partnering with Aptitude Medical Systems to accelerate development of two at-home molecular diagnostic tests for COVID-19 and influenza. ...
Tag: Biotechnology
Scientists Design Molecule to Slow SARS-Cov-2 Infection
A team of scientists have designed a molecule that disrupts the infection mechanism of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and could be ...
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, ...
How Organ-on-a-chip Models Could Grease the Drug Development Pipeline
Organ-on-a-chip models allow researchers to conduct studies closer to real-life conditions Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of ...
DARPA Program Aims to Develop Fundamentals of Biomanufacturing in Space
The B-SURE (Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth) program will leverage biological processes in resource limited environments. Imagine you ...
Birmingham Biotech and University of Birmingham Partner on Covid-19 Anti-viral Nasal Spray
COVID-19 is both contracted and transmitted by inhalation of droplets or aerosols containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the nose is ...
DTRA Works to Create Freeze-Dried Portable Biomanufacturing for Nimble Response to Emerging Biothreats
Advancements in biomanufacturing are bringing on-demand, shelf-stable vaccines to the front lines. By the year 2050, it is estimated that ...
Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Could Transform the Fight Against Malaria
It has been said that malaria breeds poverty, and poverty breeds malaria. This is the reality in many parts of ...
New Tool in the AMR Fight: Synthetic RNA That Hugs Bad Bacterial RNA and Won’t Let Go
The Big Idea A new technique my colleagues and I developed that can kill deadly, multidrug-resistant bacteria in real time ...
UC Davis and SpectraPass Partner on Rapid Mass Spec COVID-19 Test
The novel COVID-19 test uses a mass spectrometer paired with a powerful machine-learning platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 in nasal swabs. ...
Technique for Testing Biosensor Materials Could Aid Noninvasive Diagnostic Development
The efficacy of biosensors used in clinical tests depends critically on the surface of the device on which the biorecognition ...
mRNA Treatment Shows Promise for Stopping Flu and COVID-19 Viruses
With a relatively minor genetic change, a new treatment developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory ...
Why We’ll Get COVID Booster Vaccines Quickly and How We Know They’re Safe
The United States’ drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said last week COVID vaccines updated for variants won’t ...
OSU’s New Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19 Capitalizes on Measles Vaccine’s Successful History
A new SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, developed by giving a key protein’s gene a ride into the body while encased in ...
3 Innovations Fueled By COVID-19 That Will Outlast the Pandemic
A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of ...
‘Handy Pen’ Lights Up When Exposed to Nerve Gas, Spoiled Food Vapors
Exposure to some odorless, colorless and tasteless gases, such as nerve agents, can be toxic or even lethal. And having ...
Can Zika Trigger ADE? New Research Shows How Antibodies Stick To and Block Zika Virus
The Zika outbreak of 2015 and 2016 is having lasting impacts on children whose mothers became infected with the virus ...
Coronavirus-Like Particles Could Ensure Reliability of Simpler, Faster COVID-19 Tests
Rapid COVID-19 tests are on the rise to deliver results faster to more people, and scientists need an easy, foolproof ...
The Great Potential of Graphene for the Future of Rapid Diagnostics
Graphene is a layer of carbon only one atom thick. Since it was first isolated in 2004, it has found ...
Building Safeguards for Genetically Engineered Microbes
To reduce the risk of unintended ecological consequences from environmentally deployed, genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMS), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and ...
