DHS Opens Small Business Solicitation for Biological, Chemical Threat Detection
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 22.1 Solicitation is now open for U.S. small businesses ...
Tag: Select Agents
Stopping Lethal Anthrax Using an Enzyme to Disrupt the Bacterial Capsule
Scientists have demonstrated that modifying an enzyme produced by the bacterium that causes anthrax can protect mice from infection with ...
U.S. Plans to Expand Regional Ebola and Other Special Pathogen Treatment Centers
The U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has announced a forecasted ...
CDC Confirms Bacterial Strain in Aromatherapy Spray Sold at Walmart in Melioidosis Outbreak
CDC emphasized that consumers should not pour the contents down the drain or throw the bottle in the trash. Burkholderia ...
Sabin Vaccine Institute Receives Additional $34.5M from BARDA for Further Development of Ebola Sudan and Marburg Vaccines
The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) announced that the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of ...
GeoVax Receives Patent for VLP Ebola Vaccine
GeoVax Labs, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for Patent ...
Taking Aim at Alphaviruses
Alphaviruses are responsible for a considerable number of human and animal diseases. Infectious outbreaks can induce fever, malaise, and headaches, ...
Dynavax and DoD Announce Collaboration to Develop an Adjuvanted Plague Vaccine
Dynavax Technologies Corporation and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) today announced an agreement for approximately $22 million over two and a half years to ...
Animal Biosecurity and Agro-Defense Program Launches at Auburn
The Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine is home to the new Animal Health and Agro-/Bio-Defense (AHAD) Program through funding from the USDA-Agricultural ...
Leidos Awarded DARPA Contract for Personalized Protective Biosystem Against Chemical and Biological Threats
Personalized Protective Biosystem (PPB) program aims to develop technology that reduces the need for burdensome protective equipment while increasing individual ...
A Braille-Patterned Multiplex Lateral Flow Immunoassay for Detection of Biothreat Agents
There is a void in the market for user-friendly multiplex rapid immunoassays. The few commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) multiplex assays in ...
Nobody is Checking for Violations of the Biological Weapons Convention
A global treaty bans development or stockpiling of biological weapons — but allows biodefense planning. Scientists are making dramatic progress ...
LexaGene Enters into CRADA with DoD to Foster Biothreat Detection Capabilities
LexaGene will work with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Chemical Biological Center to demonstrate the capabilities of the ...
The First Human Case of Marburg Virus in West Africa Highlights Importance of Quickly Detecting Spillover Events
The first case of fatal Marburg virus disease was identified in Guinea, West Africa on 9 August 2021. Marburg is ...
Phase 1 Trial Begins for Oxford University’s ChAdOx1 Plague Vaccine
Researchers are recruiting healthy volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial (PlaVac) to test a new candidate vaccine against plague, ...
NEIDL Director: Here’s Why You Can Feel Safe About Our Research
Microbiologist Ronald Corley has gone to work every day throughout the pandemic as director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases ...
USAMRIID Scientists Continue Critical Work Against Select Agents While Aiding Pandemic Response
Since 1969, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md., has been using science ...
Novel Therapy for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) scientists are working as part of an international consortium have developed ...
Duke University Develops Portable Diagnostic to Detect Early Biomarkers of Ebola Virus
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Duke University has developed a highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic test for Ebola virus ...
DoD Testing Shows Bio-Agents Degrade Rapidly in Open Air
The experiments revealed that in open air, simulants decayed 10 to 1,000 times faster than in laboratory settings. These data ...
