How a BBQ Lighter Sparked a Breakthrough Idea on Vaccine Delivery
Inspiration for an innovative vaccine delivery method came from an everyday device that people use to start a grill: the ...
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Military Mobile Lab Leaders Forge Partnerships at German Biodefense Conference
The 17th Medical Biodefense Conference was held this month at the Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology in Munich, covering topics like ...
Preparing for a Future Pandemic with Artificial Intelligence
A hallmark of artificial intelligence is its ability to learn from the past. As researchers advance and refine AI applications, ...
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 ...
DHS to Conduct Airflow Studies in NYC to Help Urban Areas Better Plan for Airborne Threats
Study will help officials understand how potentially hazardous aerosols may transport above and below ground if a real biological or ...
VirusMED Atlas Centralizes Atomic Structures of Virus Strains
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers, working with collaborators in China and Poland have developed an Internet information system, ...
WSU to Lead USAID’s Global Sampling Project for Discovery of Emerging Viral Zoonoses
The USAID Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens - Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN) project, will build scientific capacity in partner ...
NIH RADx Initiative Funds 12 New Rapid Diagnostic Projects
The NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative announced today that it has issued contract awards totaling $77.7 million to develop and ...
GeoVax Receives Patent for VLP Ebola Vaccine
GeoVax Labs, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for Patent ...
New Reusable Fabric Can Deactivate Both Biological and Chemical Threats
The versatile MOF-based fibrous composite designed here has the potential to serve as protective cloth against both biological and chemical ...
Half of COVID Survivors Experience Lingering Symptoms Six Months After Recovery
How many people get 'long COVID?' More than half, researchers find in large population study Governments, health care organizations and ...
New Antiviral Compound Blocks SARS-CoV-2 From Entering Cells
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are collaborating with the NIH researchers to test the MM3122 ...
Taking Aim at Alphaviruses
Alphaviruses are responsible for a considerable number of human and animal diseases. Infectious outbreaks can induce fever, malaise, and headaches, ...
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 ...
Continuing Enhanced National Surveillance for Prion Diseases in the U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has forecasted a cooperative agreement to continue enhanced national surveillance for human ...
Understanding How the Microbiome Affects Radiation Injury for Countermeasure Development
Initiative funds research to explore how the microbiome affects severity of radiation injury and how the microbiome itself is impacted ...
Sterilizing Male Mosquitoes with Gene Editing to Reduce Disease Spread
Rendering certain male mosquitoes infertile with CRISPR-Cas9 techniques could slow the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Researchers at the Army’s Institute for ...
Artificial Intelligence Seed Projects Announced at Army’s Chemical Biological Center
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) is internally funding five new artificial intelligence/machine learning ...
