Biodefense and Countering Disease with Neutralizing Antibodies
After screening a large, diverse library of synthetic nanobodies, Sandia researchers identified and evaluated several potent nanobodies that can protect ...
Tag: Innovation
DARPA Program Aims to Develop Fundamentals of Biomanufacturing in Space
The B-SURE (Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth) program will leverage biological processes in resource limited environments. Imagine you ...
Birmingham Biotech and University of Birmingham Partner on Covid-19 Anti-viral Nasal Spray
COVID-19 is both contracted and transmitted by inhalation of droplets or aerosols containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the nose is ...
JILA’s Comb Breathalyzer is Now a Thousandfold More Sensitive to Disease Biomarkers
Scientists have dramatically boosted the sensitivity of a laser frequency comb breathalyzer to detect multiple biomarkers of disease. When validated ...
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. ...
Partner Therapeutics’ Novel Approach to Stratify Sepsis Patients Gains Backing From BARDA
The effort will leverage Partner Therapeutics’ prior experience developing Leukine for Acute Radiation Syndrome The contract award supports development of ...
BARDA-NCATS Partner with Vunjak-Novakovic Laboratory at Columbia University on Tissue-Chip Technology
BARDA's Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes ...
Harvard’s Wyss Institute Receives Funding to Advance ‘Vaccination-on-a-chip’ Technology
The award will fund the development of human Organ Chips with automated in-line sensors to study vaccine responses The Wyss ...
HHS Taps Draper to Develop Lung-on-a-Chip Technology to Study SARS-CoV-2
Draper has received a $719,000 federal contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enhance the ...
TEI-REX Program Will Change How We Measure Exposures to Ionizing Radiation
IARPA program will enable improved quantification of low-dose ionizing radiation exposures TEI-REX Program Virtual Proposer’s Day to be held 29 ...
Artificial Intelligence Triage Tool Screens for COVID 26% Faster Than Traditional Diagnostics
Bedside AI tool allows acute care centers to more quickly identify and isolate infected patients A new University of Oxford-led ...
New Disinfectant Can Continuously Kill Viruses on Surfaces for Up to 7 Days
Long-lasting disinfectant shows promise for fight against pandemics and hospital-acquired infections University of Central Florida researchers have developed a nanoparticle-based disinfectant ...
Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Pandemic Case Management Suite RFI
The U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center is looking for information on wearable devices and biometric data systems to support ...
Project Arcadia: Harnessing Bacteria to Build Resilient Biofilm Coatings for DoD Equipment
DARPA’s new project will develop “probiotics for materials” to build protective and beneficial coatings Bacteria are the most abundant and ...
Big-Data Competition Opens to Help Children at Risk for Severe COVID-19
Methods to distinguish children at risk for severe COVID-19 complications, including conditions such as MIS-C are needed to enable development ...
Licensing Opportunity: Virus-Like Particle Technology for Universal Flu Vaccine
Reformulating influenza vaccines annually against dominant circulating strains leads to variable protective efficacy and is unlikely to protect against novel ...
UC Davis and SpectraPass Partner on Rapid Mass Spec COVID-19 Test
The novel COVID-19 test uses a mass spectrometer paired with a powerful machine-learning platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 in nasal swabs. ...
Technique for Testing Biosensor Materials Could Aid Noninvasive Diagnostic Development
The efficacy of biosensors used in clinical tests depends critically on the surface of the device on which the biorecognition ...
3 Innovations Fueled By COVID-19 That Will Outlast the Pandemic
A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of ...
Reimagining US Public Health with Robust Application of Systems Engineering
Of the many things that COVID-19 has made abundantly clear to us, surely one of them is a newfound realization ...
