New Tool in the AMR Fight: Synthetic RNA That Hugs Bad Bacterial RNA and Won’t Let Go
The Big Idea A new technique my colleagues and I developed that can kill deadly, multidrug-resistant bacteria in real time ...
Tag: Innovation
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 ...
Researchers Adapt Cell Phone Camera for SARS-CoV-2 Detection
Researchers have developed an assay that can detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in a nasal swab using a device attached ...
Artificial Intelligence Collaboration Seeking to Hasten COVID-19 Insights
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care professionals and researchers have been confined mostly to using local and national datasets to ...
Silicon Lab-on-a-chip Test Could Provide Cheaper, Portable Diagnostics
Known as TriSilix, a new 'micro laboratory' developed by scientists at Imperial College London performs a miniature version of the ...
Meet Ruby the Supercomputer: Now in Service for COVID-19 and Nuclear Security Research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), along with partners Intel, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks, have deployed “Ruby,” a high performance computing (HPC) ...
DOE Providing Funding and Expertise for Researchers to Support COVID-19 Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) has announced a COVID-19 Technical Assistance Program (CTAP) that provides funding ...
Inflammatix Secures Additional BARDA Funding to Advance ViraBac EZ Acute Infection Test
Second tranche of BARDA funding supports diagnostics designed to read immune system and rapidly diagnose acute infection. The test will ...
Building an ACE2 Receptor Trap for Pandemic Pathogens
Researchers led by the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Alberta, Edmonton have engineered angiotensin-converting enzyme II ...
Big Ideas: Rapidly Detecting Single Molecules with a Tiny Circular Light Racetrack
My Little Sensor Lab at the University of Arizona develops ultrasensitive optical sensors for medical diagnostics, medical prognostics, environmental monitoring ...
Inspirotec Expands Into RFU Innovation and Research Park
The $50 million Innovation and Research Park on the campus of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFU) secured its first occupant this ...
Fighting Pandemics with Plasma (The Other Kind)
While researchers conduct clinical trials on use of convalescent blood serum as a therapeutic for COVID-19, there's a very different ...
Pandemic Testing Capacity: 3D Printed Nasal Swabs Shown Comparable to Flocked Swabs
A multisite clinical trial led by the University of South Florida Health (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine and its primary hospital ...
New Biosensor Illuminates in Real-Time How Viruses Invade Cell Protein-Making Machinery
Infectious viruses come in many shapes and sizes and use slightly different attack mechanisms to make humans and animals sick. ...
UT Austin Spearheads Scalable, ELISA Antibody Test for SARS-CoV-2
In collaboration with UT Austin, Penn State University and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), study ...
Scent of a Virus: NIH Seeks Novel Tech to Detect COVID-19 From Skin Odors
The National Institutes of Health is fast-tracking funding for development of novel, non-traditional approaches to identify the current SARS-CoV-2 virus ...
