DARPA Awards Nucleic Acids On-Demand (NOW) Contract to GE Research and Collaborators
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded project funding worth up to $41 million to GE Research and a ...
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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 ...
How COVID-19 Vaccines Will Get From the Factory to Your Community
The two major U.S. developers of the early COVID-19 vaccines are Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. They both developed mRNA vaccines, a ...
Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine: Cheaper and Doesn’t Require Supercold Storage Quagmire
The biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has released data on what is now the third promising vaccine candidate against COVID-19 – and ...
U.S. Invests in Pandemic Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity with $31M Contract to Cytiva
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense this week announced an agreement with Cytiva to ...
Australia Will Have Its Own Centre for Disease Control, Labor Party Vows
A Labor government would set up an Australian Centre for Disease Control to strengthen the country’s preparedness for future pandemics ...
Harvard Wyss Institute Licenses Diagnostic Technologies to Agile Biodetection
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that its nasopharyngeal swab and genomic toehold switch ...
How Pharma is Changing to Produce a Pandemic Vaccine in Rapid Time
To bring COVID-19 under control a vaccine needs to be available to every nation, rich and poor – and it ...
The Challenges of Vaccine Cold-Chain Distribution Must Be Met to End the Pandemic
Just like a fresh piece of fish, vaccines are highly perishable products and must be kept at very cold, specific ...
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 ...
Clearing the Path: Responding to Disasters During a Crisis
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is convening a diverse group of public-private partners to present, Clearing ...
The Challenge of Vaccine Cold Chain Logistics: How a Chemical ‘Casing’ Could Save Lives
Amid unpredictable outbreaks, and fears of a second wave, the hunt is on for a vaccine against COVID-19. The reason ...
UCLA Study Backs Decontamination of Single-Use N95 Respirators to Mitigate Shortages
N95 respirators, which are widely worn by health care workers treating patients with COVID-19 and are designed to be used ...
Vaccine Approval Is Just The Beginning – Huge Production Challenges Await
The race for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is well underway. It’s tempting to assume that once the first vaccine is approved ...
NDAA Amendment Proposes Further Scale Up of PPE and Diagnostic Supplies
“We need more testing supplies, more testing, and more personal protective equipment for workers on the frontlines of this pandemic.” ...
The Next Once-a-century Pandemic is Coming Sooner Than You Think – But COVID-19 Can Help Us Get Ready
COVID-19 is being referred to as a “once in a century event” – but the next pandemic is likely to ...
AstraZeneca Teams with Oxford Biomedica to Shore Up COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity
Early manufacturing and scale up of viral vector based candidate for COVID-19 AstraZeneca and Oxford Biomedica this week announced a ...
GSK Announces Plans to Produce 1 Billion Doses of Pandemic Vaccine Adjuvant in 2021
Given the unprecedented need to develop COVID-19 vaccines, GSK has started manufacture of the adjuvant at risk. The company is ...
Vent Splitting Breakthrough Shows Promise During Global Ventilator Shortage
A world-first breakthrough by Australian researchers in ventilator splitting could help hospitals under severe stress as the number of critical ...
CCDC Chemical Biological Center Strives to Become DoD’s Biomanufacturing Leader
The last decade has seen dramatic advances in using micro-organisms to manufacture highly specialized chemicals that the Department of Defense ...
