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Two Battelle employees are being recognized by the company for stellar service, garnering Inventor of the Year and CEO Awards, respectively.
Senior Research scientist Wesley Pirkle was named Inventor of the Year for significant contributions to several crucial security programs. Ron Townsend,... Read More »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted last week its final approval of Narcan, a medication designed to stop or reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Narcan, developed by Teva Pharmaceuticals, is the first generic naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray.
“In the wake of the... Read More »
As the U.S. government seeks to build its National Biodefense Strategy, more than 200 heavy hitters from federal, state and local agencies, national stakeholder organizations, academia and the private sector informed its future implementation during the April 17 Biodefense Summit held in... Read More »
Sandia National Laboratories recently launched Autonomy New Mexico, an academic research coalition tasked with creating artificially intelligent aerospace systems.
The coalition held its first meeting last week at the University of New Mexico to propose new ideas and discuss shared... Read More »
Due to declines in measles vaccinations in recent years, there have been outbreaks of the disease all over the world, and medical experts say it could rebound in full force if not addressed.
Experts at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National... Read More »
A new study published in eLife concludes that the path to fighting malaria at a community level could be through widespread deployment of antimalarial drugs.
Importantly, researchers theorize this would not only protect those who take the drugs but even those untreated, as the drugs would help... Read More »
EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on global animal, environmental and human health, has generated a report maintaining there are gaps in pandemics related events readiness.
The organization presented Building Resilience to Biothreats at an event earlier this month featuring... Read More »
Researchers from Florida International University's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine have created a novel, broad-spectrum antibiotic containing arsenic to combat the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
"The antibiotic, arsinothricin or AST, is a natural product made by soil bacteria and... Read More »
A vaccine being developed by Emergent BioSolutions Inc. to treat the chikungunya virus showed strong results in an analysis of a Phase 2 clinical study, the company said on Tuesday.
The chikungunya virus virus-like particle (CHIKV-VLP) vaccine candidatewas well-tolerated and no... Read More »
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) officials recently visited the United States, touring Colorado's Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP).
The group included the OPCW Director-General H.E. Fernando Arias, Chairperson of the Executive Council H.E.... Read More »
Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX’s) 2019 Air Exercise (AirEx) attracted nearly 200 first responders, who participated in the simulation designed to test the airport's airfield accident readiness.
“The safety and security of our guests is paramount and this exercise allows... Read More »
Research members from the Jefferson Vaccine Center of the Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University have created a new drug to combat Nipah virus, which currently has no approved vaccines.
Nipah is an RNA virus transmissible from animals such as bats and pigs to humans. It’s a... Read More »
The Biomedical
Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a component of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, will collaborate with Johnson
& Johnson Innovation and the Children’s National Health System to launch an
innovation zone.
The innovation zone will... Read More »
Researchers from Virginia Tech were awarded a $1.4 million grant from Unitaid to perform economic and environmental impact assessments of a four-year project in Africa aimed at reducing malaria cases.
That project is called the Board One Health Endectocide-based Malaria Intervention in Africa... Read More »
ENSCO, Inc. has secured an 18-month, $2.9 million Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) contract to continue sensor system development initiatives.
ENSCO's work would focus on SenseNet, an endeavor devoted to developing a low-cost integrated sensor... Read More »
In 2012, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
completed its Kansas City facility and the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) found workload projections have increased significantly from earlier
forecasts.
The facility produces or procures more than 80 percent of... Read More »
A recent report from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) lays out present problems in global access to antibiotics.
The majority of the world’s annual 5.7 million antibiotic-treatable deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. The mortality burden from... Read More »
Zeteo Tech was awarded $1.5 million from the
Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)
to develop a new sensor technology to detect biological threat agents.
The sensor technology combines trigger and
detector functions and will enable real-time detection... Read More »
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) held a workshop in London earlier this month to develop projects to reduce biological risks that are a consequence of advanced technology.
The workshop was
designed to provide recommendations to the NTI Biosecurity Innovation
and Risk Reduction Initiative’s... Read More »
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Joint Task Force-West (JTF-W) South Texas Corridor officials are espousing the benefits of collaborative efforts to thwart transnational criminal activity.
With the advent of the Southern Border and Approaches Campaign launched in December... Read More »
Scientists from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Saudi Arabia and Canada have created a vaccine to defend against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which has caused hundreds of deaths since being identified in 2012.
For testing, two versions of the potential vaccine... Read More »
NARCAN Nasal Spray appears to be the best life-saving antidote that family members and other bystanders can administer to save a loved one from overdosing on opioids, a new study has found.
The study’s conclusions may bode well for potentially decreasing drug overdose fatalities in the United... Read More »
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) officials have awarded a pair of $50,000 grants to winners of the organization's Nuclear Security Index Challenge, which seeks to improve nuclear security conditions worldwide.
The first grant was awarded to Travis Carless (RAND Corporation), Kenneth Redus... Read More »
The synthetic biology firm Twist Bioscience Corporation is espousing the benefits of Battelle's ThreatSEQTM web service DNA screening platform, which is designed to aid in bolstering internal biosecurity efforts.
“Battelle created the ThreatSEQ web service with significant input from industry... Read More »
A recent report from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) lays out present problems in global access to antibiotics.
The majority of the world’s annual 5.7 million antibiotic-treatable deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. The mortality burden from... Read More »
Veronica Daigle, principal deputy assistant secretary for Readiness for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), recently visited the Pennsylvania National Guard’s (PNG) training center at Fort Indiantown Gap (FTIG) as part of her tour of schools and ranges where soldiers and airmen from National... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) recommends that military recruits entering basic training continue to be inoculated with a vaccine for the adenovirus, a DNA virus considered to be a major cause of febrile illness.
While adenoviruses are usually spread through coughing, sneezing or after... Read More »
As a means of protecting controlled unclassified information throughout the supply chain, Defense Industrial Base Sector Coordinating Council (DIB SCC) officials have established a Supply Chain Cybersecurity Industry Task Force.
Founding members of Task Force are BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed... Read More »
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) officials said they are expediting efforts to develop an African Swine Fever vaccine and diagnostic initiatives.
African Swine Fever is a viral disease capable of wreaking havoc in a pig’s body, causing... Read More »
A new, investigational and universal influenza vaccine candidate reached an important milestone this week, beginning its first human trial under the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
That test will examine its safety and tolerability, along with its ability to do... Read More »
Applied science and technology development company Battelle has deemed the recent three-week testing of its Common Analytical Laboratory System (CALS) with users a success.
CALS, described as three variants of mobile laboratories providing on-site analytical capabilities to any incident... Read More »
A new, $22 million grant-driven project will lead an international consortium of scientists to develop antibody-based means of combating Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), Andes virus (ANDV), Sin Nombre virus (SNV) and the Puumula virus (PUUV) over the next five years.
The effort,... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking proposals for the fourth swarm sprint in its OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
“With OFFSET, we are expanding the tactics available to warfighters, leveraging advances in autonomous systems to address complex... Read More »
Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin Corporation officials said the firms are partnering to pursue a contract focusing on consolidating and modernizing the nation's surveillance and air traffic control radars.
The effort involves the Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR)... Read More »
The National
Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
recently named Amy Pate as its new executive director.
Pate is a political
scientist with a doctorate in government and politics specializing in
international relations and comparative politics. She will... Read More »
