Licensing Opportunity: Rapid Ultrasensitive Assay for Detecting Prions
Prion diseases are neurodegenerative diseases of great public concern. Currently, there are no tests that can accurately and economically detect ...
Tag: Biotechnology
This Atomically Thin Detector Could Become a Biotech Breakthrough
A technology spun from carbon nanotube sensors discovered 20 years ago by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists could one day ...
UK Merger Watchdog Releases Analysis of Past Acquisition Attempt of PacBio by Illumina
The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) this week released an analysis of lessons learned from assessing the proposed acquisition ...
Air Force Research Lab Announces Grand Challenges for Biotechnology
The Air Force Research Laboratory announced its three Biotechnology Grand Challenges last month in efforts to spearhead innovation among small ...
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 ...
National Science Foundation Backs Rapid Development of Portable, Saliva-Based COVID-19 Test
University of Utah engineer is developing a fast, reusable test for COVID-19 that works with cellphones "Testing, testing, testing." It's ...
Isolation Chamber Invented by Army Doctors Protects Staff from Pathogens
Army doctors working at hospitals within the Defense Health Agency have prototyped an isolation chamber that can be placed over ...
Researchers Develop New Microneedle Array Combination Vaccine Delivery System
Novel vaccine delivery technology will contribute to efforts to develop universal vaccines and improve global immunization capabilities essential for combating ...
Revocation of Emergency Use Authorizations of Zika, Ebola Diagnostics
OraSure and DiaSorin diagnostics received other classifications for use which removed them from EUA eligibility. The following is a summarized ...
Foreign Interference in NIH Research: Policy Implications
The following report from the Congressional Research Service was published on December 19, 2019. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is ...
Disease Diagnostic System Patent Application: Lab-On-A-Device
Researchers from the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science have filed a patent application for a new diagnostic ...
National and Transnational Security Implications of Asymmetric Access to and Use of Biological Data
Kavita M. Berger, Gryphon Scientific, LLC, Takoma Park, MD, United States Phyllis A. Schneck, Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company, ...
