NIH Awards $3M Grant to Albany Med for Plague Vaccine Development
Albany Medical College scientists have been awarded a $3 million, five-year federal grant to develop a vaccine that could protect ...
Tag: Y. pestis
Novel Antibiotic Shows Success in Treatment of Plague and Melioidosis
Leading scientists at Defence Science and Technology Laboratory have made an exciting new discovery in the fight against some of ...
Complete Protection Against Yersinia pestis by Immunization with Inhalable rF1-V10 Fusion Protein
The capsular antigen F1, the low-calcium-response V antigen (LcrV), and the recombinant fusion protein (rF1-LcrV) of Yersinia pestis, are leading ...
Justinianic Plague was Nothing Like Flu
‘Plague sceptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th– 8th centuries CE, argues a ...
Bacteria Break-up May Block Bubonic Plague
Figuring out how to keep fleas from throwing up their food could be a key to stopping the transmission of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The Long Lasting Effect of Bubonic Plague on Human Immunity Genes
Scientists examining the remains of 36 bubonic plague victims from a 16th century mass grave in Germany have found the ...
2021 BAA for Development of Medical Countermeasures for Biological Threats
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is soliciting research ...
Plague Outbreaks Picked Up Speed Over 300 Years
Researchers who analyzed thousands of documents covering a 300-year span of plague outbreaks in London, England, have estimated that the ...
Validated Methods for Removing Select Agent Samples from BSL-3 Labs
The Federal Select Agent Program dictates that all research entities in the United States must rigorously assess laboratory protocols to ...
A Call to Action on Plague Research
Plague is a communicable rodent-borne disease caused by Yersinia pestis that is primarily a wildlife disease that occasionally spills over ...
Ancient Pathogens of Past Plagues Tell a Vivid Tale
One of the pioneers of the field of microbial archaeology is geneticist Johannes Krause, founding director of the Max Planck ...
Hunter Contracts Bubonic Plague from Infected Rabbit, 28 People Quarantined
A hunter who killed and ate a wild rabbit on north China’s Mongolian steppe contracted bubonic plague, Chinese health officials ...
Tracing the Ancestral Genome of The Plague
An international team of researchers has analyzed remains from ten archaeological sites in England, France, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland to ...
Researchers Optimize Novel Hexaplex PCR Assay for Simultaneous Detection of Anthrax and Plague Pathogens
In a new study, researchers developed and evaluated a novel hexaplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection of pathogenic B. anthracis and Y. pestis as ...
Ology Bioservices Awarded DoD Contract for Countermeasures Against Bioweapons
The Department of Defense (DOD), through its Platforms for Rapid Integrated Solutions for Medical Countermeasures (PRISM) office, has awarded Ology ...
Naval Research Laboratory Seeks to Advance Field Diagnostics of Infectious Agents
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is seeking partners to advance technology developed for in vitro diagnostic devices that are amenable ...
Collaboration Among BARDA, DTRA, USAMRIID and Spero to Advance SPR994
Spero Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that it was awarded funding of $15.7 million, with the potential for up to an additional $28.5 ...
