NISTCHO: New Living Reference Material for Producing Monoclonal Antibodies
NIST and collaborators have developed a new line of mAb-producing living cells that can help manufacturers better understand how their ...
Tag: Synthetic Biology
How Organ-on-a-chip Models Could Grease the Drug Development Pipeline
Organ-on-a-chip models allow researchers to conduct studies closer to real-life conditions Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of ...
Securing Synthetic Biology Data At Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Boston firm BioBright LLC to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment ...
Rapid Reconstruction Method for Large RNA Virus Genomes During an Outbreak
In a new study published in Nature, research led by scientists at the Institute of Virology and Immunology (IVI) and ...
DNA Synthesis Risk Reduction: New Report Outlines Framework for Global Safeguards
In 2019, the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the World Economic Forum organized an international expert Working Group on Preventing Illicit ...
H.R. 4374 – The Engineering Biology Research & Development Act of 2019
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a cost estimate report on Nov. 1 for The Engineering Biology Research and Development ...
Cutting Edge Chemical and Biological Defense Science: Hot Topics at CBD S&T 2019
In a few short weeks, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) will host the 2019 Chemical and Biological Defense Science ...
NIST Wants Your Help Standardizing Genome Editing Terminology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Genome Editing Consortium addresses the measurements and standards needed to increase confidence and ...
Biodefense World Summit 2019
Cambridge Healthtech Institute's (CHI) 5th Annual Biodefense World Summit 2019 is a dynamic conference for the entire biodefense community: technology ...
Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT)
The Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) General Meeting will be held Feb 27 – Mar 2, 2019 on ...
DNA Screening System Helps Companies Detect and Characterize Biosecurity Threats
The dual-use nature of emerging biotechnology necessitates biosecurity measures in industry, particularly for the gene synthesis sector which produces DNA ...
FDA Public Webinar: Genome Editing in Animals
On December 3, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), with participation from the FDA’s ...
2018 Arizona Biosecurity Workshop
The Arizona Biosecurity Workshop will be held December 13-14, 2018 in Tempe, AZ. This two-day workshop focuses on community engagement ...
2019 ASM Biothreats
The American Society for Microbiology's 2019 ASM Biothreats meeting will be held January 29–31, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia. This leading annual ...
Genome Damage From CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing Higher Than Thought
A new study published today in the journal Nature Biotechnology reveals that CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing can cause greater genetic damage ...
USDA Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has announced a competitive opportunity to conduct ...
Happening This Week: ASM Biothreats
The American Society for Microbiology’s ASM Biothreats 2018 meeting is taking place February 12-14, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. ASM Biothreats ...
U.S. Government Developing Tools to Identify and Characterize Nucleic Acid Sequences of Concern
Battelle has been awarded a contract by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to develop threat assessment software to ...
Arizona Biosecurity Workshop Forges International Collaboration
Biosecurity professionals from across the U.S. and Mexico gathered on Arizona State University's Tempe campus Dec. 7 and 8 to ...
IARPA Awards Contracts to Develop Fun GCAT Biosecurity Tools
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) this week announced a multi-year research effort to develop new biosecurity tools under ...
