Killing Anthrax More Quickly with Hot Air Decontamination
New method to decrease the amount of time it takes for hot air decontamination to kill bacterial spores, such as ...
Tag: Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Looking Back at the Biological Threat Reduction Program Through the Decades
This year marks three decades of collaboration spearheaded by the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program with foreign partners ...
“Resurrector” Drugs Have Potential to Rescue Aged AChE to Fight Nerve Agents
Medical countermeasures known as “resurrectors” may one day be incorporated into a combination antidote for nerve agents and organophosphate pesticides ...
MIT Researchers Make Progress on Antibiotic Resistance Under DTRA-JSTO Research Program
Researchers are making significant progress in antibiotic resistance under the Discovery of Medical Countermeasures Against New and Emerging threats (DOMANE) ...
First-in-Class Nerve Agent Antidote Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier to Aid Central Nervous System
Chemical weapon nerve agents like Sarin or Novichok typically function by blocking the transmission of messages from the central nervous ...
Dial-a-Threat Rapid Assay Generation Program Could Bypass Reliance on Cold-Chain Supply
The DaT Program aims to develop a highly adaptive, all-encompassing biothreat detection modality that minimizes reliance on supply chain constrictions. ...
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 ...
Cooperative Threat Reduction: Noblis Secures $263M DTRA Support Contract
Noblis, Inc. today announced it has received a five-year, $263 million prime contract from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense ...
Third COVID-19 Wave in Mexico Shows Dangers of Weak Federal Response
New COVID-19 cases in Mexico are approaching the highest levels seen during the second wave in late January 2021. There ...
DoD Testing Shows Bio-Agents Degrade Rapidly in Open Air
The experiments revealed that in open air, simulants decayed 10 to 1,000 times faster than in laboratory settings. These data ...
Defense Threat Reduction Agency Awards $75M for Antibiotic Drug Development
In the medical and military fields, antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be formidable foes. Now, University of Florida Health researchers and their ...
BTRP Program Works to Improve Biosafety and Biosecurity in Iraq
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) helping build global health security by building capacity ...
New Ebola Vaccine a Win for Global Health
Researchers from USAMRIID and WRAIR witness major public health achievement after years of contributions to Ebola vaccine development. Ask Amy ...
Originally Built for Bioterrorism Agents, This Decontamination System Now Clears SARS-CoV-2 from Military Aircraft
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has quickly and safely transported COVID-19-infected warfighters and civilians ...
DoD Leverages Lung-on-a-Chip Technology for COVID-19 Research
Military units conduct reconnaissance missions to obtain information – by visual observation or other detection methods – about the activities ...
CRDF Global Selected to Support Biological Threat Reduction Program Contracts
CRDF Global, an independent, nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Va., has been awarded two subcontracts from Leidos in support of ...
Is Your Infection Bacterial or Viral? DoD-Backed Screening Device Gives Quick Answers
If the cause of an illness is bacterial, then an antibiotic can help; if the cause of the illness is ...
US Funds Animal Disease Lab in Central Luzon
The United States, through the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), has funded an advanced laboratory in Central Luzon, Philippines, in ...
Bioxy Decontaminant Agent Tested by DoD Shown Effective Against COVID-19
A decontamination solution originally under development for use against chemical and biological threat agents has been identified by the Defense ...
CHIKRisk: Mapping the Next Chikungunya Outbreak
A new computer application — called CHIKRisk — uses statistical modeling to help predict the risk of an outbreak of ...
