Antibody Shows Promise for Developing Hantavirus Treatment
An international research team discovered the first human antibody to effectively neutralize two types of hantaviruses in animal models, according ...
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Ebola Virus Can ‘Hide Out’ in the Brain After Treatment and Cause Recurrent Infections
The Ebola virus can hide in the brains of monkeys that have recovered after medical treatment without causing symptoms and ...
USAMRIID Scientist Wins AMSUS Research and Development
Xiankun (Kevin) Zeng, Ph.D., a molecular biologist and principal investigator at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ...
USAMRIID Study Reveals Ebola Virus Can Hide in Brain
In a groundbreaking study, scientists describe how Ebola virus, which can persist in certain areas of the body, can re-emerge ...
First Lethal Hamster Model for SARS-CoV-2 Developed by USAMRIID Scientists
This model system will aid in understanding the severe disease course of COVID-19—including the virus’s interaction with the central nervous ...
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 ...
Navrogen Enters CRADA with USAMRIID to Test Small Molecule NK Cell Activators Against SARS-COV-2 Infection
USAMRIID will test Navrogen's NAV-201 small molecule against SARS-COV-2 infected human epithelial cells in vitro and in in vivo rodent studies Navrogen, Inc. has ...
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 ...
Thin Film Freezing Shows Efficacy for Biodefense Countermeasures Against Alphaviruses and Filoviruses
TFF Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative drug products based on its patented thin-film ...
Smiths Detection’s BioFlash Shown to Detect Airborne COVID-19
Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, today reports that its BioFlash® Biological Identifier is capable of ...
New Ebola Vaccine a Win for Global Health
Researchers from USAMRIID and WRAIR witness major public health achievement after years of contributions to Ebola vaccine development. Ask Amy ...
DoD Researchers Collaborate on Universal Antibody Test for COVID-19
Researchers from the U.S. Army Futures Command, in collaboration with Houston Methodist, Pennsylvania State University, and UT Austin, tested alternative ...
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 ...
USAMRIID Scientists Engineer First Lethal Mouse Model for COVID-19
Small animal models mirroring human disease are essential for advancing vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments to combat emerging pathogens. Army scientists ...
The Unusual Persistence of SARS-Cov-2 in Aerosol Suspensions
In this study, researchers measured the short-term aerosol efficiencies of SARS-CoV-2 and compared the efficiencies with two other emerging coronaviruses, ...
Health Security Today – 1 April 2020
FEATURED FDA, NIH, Veteran Affairs Partner with America Makes for 3D Printing Innovations During Pandemic Response Through this collaboration, the ...
USAMRIID Gears Up to Fight COVID-19
In February, the CDC sent the Army about 10 drops of blood from one of the first Covid-19 patients, a ...
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 ...
USAMRIID: America’s Key Lab for Fighting Infectious Diseases Has Become a Pentagon Backwater
At the White House briefing Wednesday on efforts to combat COVID-19, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that he had just ...
