Army Medical Department Board Tests Nerve Agent Antidote Auto-Injectors
Nerve agents are the most toxic of the known chemical agents. They are hazards in both liquid and vapor states ...
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Bats’ Fierce Immune Systems Drive Viruses To Higher Virulence, Making Them Deadlier in Humans
A new University of California, Berkeley, study finds that bats' fierce immune response to viruses could drive viruses to replicate ...
Coronavirus Epidemic Reaches Bleak Milestone, Exceeding SARS Toll
The coronavirus epidemic in China has now claimed more lives than the SARS outbreak of 2002 and 2003. The number ...
Boom and Bust Funding for Coronavirus Research Leaves Knowledge Gaps
The coronavirus research field is small and modestly funded, and until very recently, was not viewed as a fertile patch ...
Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU
In the coronavirus epidemic, doctors on the front lines take on the greatest risk and best understand the situation. Dr. ...
Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak Suggests We Aren’t Ready for a Pandemic
A top biosecurity expert says the US and the world aren’t ready for a big, mass-casualty pandemic. In this interview, ...
Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Leahy and Others Press Trump Administration to Fully Fund Pandemic Preparedness
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and three other senators Friday urged the Trump Administration to fully fund pandemic preparedness and response ...
Protein Data Bank Archive Adds New Coronavirus Protease Structure
The Protein Data Bank archive, which contains more than 160,000 3D structures for proteins, DNA, and RNA, this month released ...
Coronavirus Surveillance: The Team Behind the Unique Coding System for Disease Tracking
The Regenstrief Institute provides the backbone of the LOINC terminology system and jumped into action to help case tracking for ...
WHO Asks for $675 Million in Q1 to Stop Coronavirus Epidemic
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has appealed to the international community for $675 million to boost international ...
Senators Urge Comprehensive Response to Ensure Veterans Health Administration Prepared for Coronavirus Case Surge
Following surge in coronavirus cases, Senators lead effort to ensure preparedness and response from Veterans Health Administration In response to ...
Fighting Coronavirus Fear with Empathy: Lessons Learned from How Africans Got Blamed for Ebola
With coronavirus cases exploding in China, the U.S. is once again responding to a global epidemic. Five years ago, when ...
New Tool Monitors Real Time Mutations in Flu
A Rutgers-led team has developed a tool to monitor influenza A virus mutations in real time, which could help virologists ...
Antibody Mixture May Help Block Ebola Virus Infection
A research team led by scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has developed an antibody mixture that in animals is ...
NOSI – Urgent Competitive Revision to Existing NIH Grants, CRADAs to Support COVID-19 Response
A Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) was issued on Feb. 6 to highlight the urgent need for research on the ...
CDC Novel Coronavirus Diagnostic Ships Out to Public Health Labs
The CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel is ready for distribution to qualified laboratories for detection of 2019 ...
Why is the Defense Department Withholding Funding for USAMRIID and CCDC Chemical Biological Center?
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin as well as Congressmen David Trone, Dutch Ruppersberger, Jamie Raskin, and ...
HHS, Regeneron Collaborate to Develop COVID-19 Treatment Using VelociSuite Technology
To develop therapeutics to treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the newly emerging coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The U.S. Department of Health ...
First-Ever Therapeutic Antibody Cocktail for Sudan Virus Shows Promise in Animal Studies
Army scientists working with partners from industry and academia have developed an experimental treatment that protects animals from Sudan virus, ...
FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for the First 2019 Novel Coronavirus Diagnostic
The U.S Food and Drug Administration today announced issuance of an emergency use authorization (EUA) to enable emergency use of ...
