NIH to Further Invest in Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network
Expanded funding will support activieitechnology development and clinical testing of prototype point-of-care systems. The National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and ...
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How a COVID-19 Infection Spurs Antibodies Against Common Colds
Scientists at Scripps Research analyzing coronavirus antibodies found more antibodies that recognize other, related viruses in people who had been ...
Hospitals Resilience to Extreme Events: One-Third of Staff May Be Lost During a Disaster
New research warns that UK hospitals face losing significant capacity and some vital services during extreme events or disasters due ...
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 ...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Opens Grant Program to Shore Up Avian Flu Biosecurity
This new federal assistance program is designed to increase readiness for wildlife agencies to protect against future pandemics and encourage ...
Send in the Blow Flies: Using Insects to Sample Areas for Chemical Warfare Agents
Researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI have found that blow flies can be used as chemical sensors, with ...
New Research on Building Blocks of Poxviruses Could Lead to Antiviral Drugs
Scientists uncover how poxviruses form their protein scaffold from a building block called D13, which could lead to the development ...
NIH Awards $3M Grant to Albany Med for Plague Vaccine Development
Albany Medical College scientists have been awarded a $3 million, five-year federal grant to develop a vaccine that could protect ...
Bird Flu is Killing Millions of Chickens and Turkeys Across the US
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in chicken and turkey flocks has spread across 24 U.S. states since it ...
Nominate Experts for National Academies’ Committee to Counter Misleading Information about Biological Threats
Inaccurate and misleading information about biological threats have become commonplace, presenting challenges to effective outbreak control, seeding distrust among affected ...
Will the BA.2 Subvariant Cause Another Wave of Infections in the US?
A new omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19, BA.2, is quickly becoming the predominant source of infections amid ...
Antibody Shows Promise for Developing Hantavirus Treatment
An international research team discovered the first human antibody to effectively neutralize two types of hantaviruses in animal models, according ...
Some PASC Patients May Experience Long-Lasting Airway Disease — Even if They Only Had Mild COVID-19
Patients in this study with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), or 'Long Covid', experienced small airway disease independent of initial ...
CounterACT: U.S. Funding Early Stage Drug Discovery of Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) program has announced intentions to open a funding solicitation ...
Neurological Symptoms are Present in Roughly Two-Thirds of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
Molecular imaging uncovers effects of COVID-19 on the brain Incidence of dementia, parkinsonism and psychiatric disorders within six months after ...
U.S. Opens Funding for New Public Health Pathogens Genomics Centers of Excellence
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the availability of cooperative agreement funds for this fiscal year ...
Rapid COVID-19 PCR Test Developed at Northwestern Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization
Northwestern University faculty and spinoff company developed the new technology A new highly sensitive, easy-to-use test for COVID-19 that requires ...
New NIH Study Will Follow Patients That Had Allergic Reaction to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are conducting a clinical trial designed to help understand ...
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 ...
4 Essential Reads to Understand Russia’s False Claims About Biological Weapons in Ukraine
On March 11, 2022, Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s U.N. ambassador, told the U.N. Security Council that Russia had discovered evidence of ...
