NIST Wants Your Help Standardizing Genome Editing Terminology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Genome Editing Consortium addresses the measurements and standards needed to increase confidence and ...
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Explosion Confirmed at Russian Lab Storing Smallpox, Ebola
One worker was hospitalized after a gas explosion on Sep. 16 caused a fire to break out at the Russian ...
Decontamination of Bacillus Spores from Drinking Water Infrastructure
A new report released this week by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Homeland Security Research program summarizes the results of decontamination ...
Center for Vaccine Development Awarded up to $201M to Establish Influenza Clinical Core
The Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) announced that ...
Senate Funding Bills Recognize, but Fall Short of Needs for Critical Infectious Disease Responses
The following statement released on Sept. 19 from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is published here in its ...
DoD Inspector General to Reevaluate Select Agent Facilities, Biosafety Oversight
The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (DoD OIG) is conducting a Follow-Up Evaluation of DoD Biological Select ...
Rising Cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in Massachusetts
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus—a rare but often fatal mosquito-borne virus—has been found in Massachusetts for the first time since ...
Is There a Role For the BWC in Oversight of Lab-Created Potential Pandemic Pathogens?
Research by Ron Fouchier in the Netherlands and Yoshihiro Kawaoka in Madison, Wisconsin marked the beginning of a "gain-of-function" research, ...
The Soldiers Who Took on Yellow Fever
The Yellow Fever Board, led by then-Major Walter Reed and Jesse Lazear, had convened at the Army's Columbia Barracks in ...
BioWatch Data Stored on Contractor Website Vulnerable to Hacking for Years
For more than a decade, the Department of Homeland Security failed to properly secure sensitive information on the primary BioWatch ...
20 Years of the Strategic National Stockpile: Response History Timeline
The the nation’s largest reserve of medicines and supplies for use in a public health emergency – the Strategic National ...
Folded Paper Creates Portable Lab for Field Laboratory Tests
Coating paper with a liquid-infused polymer and folding it into precise 3D geometries allows scientists to create cheap, portable laboratory ...
What’s the Right Way for Scientists to Edit Human Genes? 5 Essential Reads
Since scientists first figured out how to edit genes with precision using a technology called CRISPR, they’ve been grappling with ...
How Does USAMRIID Shut Down Impact Nation’s Bioterrorism Laboratory Response Network?
The Laboratory Response Network (LRN) is a collaborative federal effort run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Research Halted at USAMRIID Over Biosafety Issues
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the only Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in the Department of ...
Project BioShield: Building a Better Medical Countermeasure Pipeline
Project BioShield has revolutionized the way the United States addresses health security threats, developing essential public-private partnerships for medical countermeasure ...
Silverlon Wound Dressings Cleared by FDA for Injuries Caused by Mustard Gas
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance Silverlon, a product to manage certain blister injuries caused by sulfur mustard, ...
Detecting Infection Before Symptoms Occur by Monitoring the Vagus Nerve
The Biomedical Advanced Research Projects Agency (BARDA) has partnered with the University of California San Diego to development a low-profile ...
BARDA Exercises First Option in Transition from BioThrax to AV7909 Anthrax Vaccine
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised its first contract option with Emergent BioSolutions to procure doses ...
MERS-CoV: Novel Zoonotic Disease Outbreak a Hard Lesson for Healthcare
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was first identified in 2012 and since then, sporadic but continued outbreaks have been ...
