Tests in Engineered Human Tissues Show hrsACE2 Drug Blocked Early Stages of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
An international team led by University of British Columbia researcher Dr. Josef Penninger has found a trial drug that effectively ...
Tag: Magazine Edition 11 March 2020
These articles also appear in the Global Biodefense Magazine – 11 March 2020 edition.
JPEO-CBRND, BARDA Partner with SAb Biotherapeutics to Develop COVID-19 Therapeutic
A therapeutic to treat novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is moving forward in development through a partnership announced Apr. 1 ...
USAMRIID Resumes Full Operations Following Federal Select Agent Program Reinstatement
Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases continue to work on medical countermeasures for the novel ...
FDA Has Not Announced EUA for Bodysphere 2-Min Test
Reuters published a short report based on a poorly written press release on BusinessWire (since removed) from an unverified company ...
Profusa and Partners Announce DARPA-Backed Study to Measure Early Signs of Influenza
Profusa, a digital health company that is pioneering the next generation of personalized medicine, today announced the initiation of a ...
DARPA P3 Researchers Race to Create Treatment for the Novel Coronavirus
Researchers working under DARPA's Pandemic Preparedness Platform (P3) are racing to apply their experimental techniques to a true pandemic playing out ...
ASM Expresses Concern About Coronavirus Test Reagent Shortages
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), one of the largest life science societies in the world comprised of more than ...
Congressional Leaders on Ways and Means Ask IRS to Reconsider Tax Deadline Given Coronavirus Crisis
Today, Ways and Means Democrats requested that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig provide the Committee with an update ...
BARDA Backs Holigic’s High-Throughput COVID-19 Diagnostic
A diagnostic test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) - designed for use in a diagnostic system that can process up ...
Persons Infected with Novel Coronavirus May be ‘Symptom-Free’ for 5 Days
Research published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that persons infected with SARS-CoV-2, the newly-identified virus that ...
An Ambitious Goal: Reducing Biothreats and Making Bioweapons Obsolete
In a report released this week, Making Bioweapons Obsolete: A Summary of Workshop Discussions, Sandia National Laboratories and the Council ...
Dr. Bruce Aylward Reports on China’s Novel Coronavirus Response
During a two-week visit to China in early February for the World Health Organization, Dr. Bruce Aylward saw how China ...
Critical Bioeconomy Asset in Need of Attention: BSL-3 and BSL-4 Laboratories in the U.S.
An essential element in the critical national infrastructure required to safely and securely address the threat of emerging infectious diseases ...
Understanding Public Perceptions of Bioterrorism to Inform Risk Communication
This study examines the baseline public comprehension and perceptions of bioterrorism, as well as the underpinning, trusted information sources in ...
CCD Detector System for Abrin Toxin Activity
A novel method for quantitative detection of biologically active abrin toxin is presented utilizing a low-cost CCD detector system for ...
Tandem Mass Spec for Select Agent Detection
Efforts to mitigate biothreats require development of efficient countermeasures which in turn relies on fast and accurate methods to detect ...
Passive Immunization with mAbs Against Aerosolized Ricin Toxin
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize that the deliberate release of biological toxins and highly infectious agents ...
USDA Announces Additional African Swine Fever Biosecurity Measures
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Greg Ibach today announced additional measures to control ...
Viral Vaccines to Combat SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia
The outbreak of 2019-novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that is caused by SARS-CoV-2 has spread rapidly. Development of SARS-CoV-2-based vaccines is ...
The Case for a Seven-Gene-Deleted African Swine Fever Virus vs. Live Attenuated Vaccine
African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating infectious disease in swine that is severely threatening the global pig industry. An ...
