Research
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there has been a troubling rise in cases of illness associated with mosquito, tick and flea bites in the United States over the last 13 years; in fact, cases have tripled.
More than 640,000 cases of illness were reported during... Read More »
Wellcome Trust has earmarked a $3.6 million grant award as a means of aiding the malaria drug research process.
Officials said the funding allotment would benefit the work of researchers from Australia's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Merck & Co., Inc., which is known as MSD in Australia,... Read More »
Engility Holdings, Inc. recently announced that it was awarded a five-year, $90 million task order to provide software engineering and production support to the U.S. Navy's tactical afloat and submarine local area networks.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic awarded the Tactical... Read More »
Engineers from Lehigh University have earned themselves a 3-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support an unusual means of Ebola outbreak prediction by tracking the ecological factors of bat migration patterns.
The effort follows A New England Journal of Medicine study... Read More »
Lockheed Martin plans to bring a new manufacturing facility online later this month in Pinellas Park, Florida, that will assemble canopies and bulkheads for the F-35 Lightning II program, the company announced at a formal opening on Monday.
The new facility boasts 65,000 square feet of... Read More »
Scientists have determined the yellow fever virus has the potential to spread into cities around the world where it previously hasn't been seen.
The study findings of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization detailed the mapping of yellow fever... Read More »
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard researchers have created a new tool that better prepares the CRISPR-based diagnostic tool, SHERLOCK, for rapid response to viral outbreaks.
The updates allow clinicians to quickly and cheaply diagnose patient samples and track epidemic spread directly in... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently awarded BAE Systems a contract worth up to $97.9 million to develop a Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) next-generation missile warning system for aircraft.
Under the Limited Interim Missile Warning System (LIMWS) contract, the company’s 2-Color Advanced Warning System... Read More »
Bipartisan members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released a discussion draft on Thursday aimed at improving the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond to deliberate bioterrorist attacks or naturally occurring pandemics in the United States.
The draft... Read More »
Leadership from the Alliance for Biosecurity urged Congressional lawmakers at a hearing on Thursday to increase funding for programs to protect Americans from biological and chemical threats.
Speaking before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and... Read More »
Though found to prevent Zika virus infection in primates, a cocktail of monoclonal antibodies was deemed ineffective in a new study led by the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine.
Pregnant rhesus macaques were infected, the infection spread to the amniotic fluid and fetal deaths... Read More »
A new paper from the RAND Corporation warns that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to capsize the foundations of nuclear deterrence by 2040.
RAND researchers based the paper, titled “How Might Artificial Intelligence Affect the Risk of Nuclear War?,” on a series of workshops... Read More »
For the first time, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) was able to test drones for land and maritime usefulness to federal agencies, conducting tests at two sites in Mississippi back in January.
To do so, they worked with the United States... Read More »
BAE Systems and Dell EMC announced Monday a collaboration to offer a scalable, hybrid cloud solution for the U.S. government.
“Our federated secure cloud is not just a modified commercial cloud environment for government use,” Al Whitmore, president of BAE Systems’ Intelligence & Security... Read More »
The National Security Agency (NSA) has developed a set of tools, called Unfetter, designed to bolster cybersecurity initiatives.
Officials said Unfetter offers critical research insights to anyone, positioning decision-makers in various industries to incorporate network-protection... Read More »
A recently released study, presented to the 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, demonstrated a 2017 reemergence of West Nile Virus (WNV) spreading to new areas in Greece.
In all, scientists found 26 patients with the disease. An additional 19 had WNV fever.... Read More »
Chlorinated lipids may be the answer to quickly testing and treating individuals who may have been exposed to chlorine gas, a Saint Louis University professor recently said.
Quickly determining which chemical agent was used is allows medical personnel to take appropriate countermeasures to save... Read More »
The National Security Agency (NSA) recently hosted researchers from “lablets” taking part in its Science of Security and Privacy (SoS) initiative, which advances the design of trusted systems across disciplines ranging from computer science to behavioral science.
Since its launch in 2012,... Read More »
Scientists from the University of Liverpool recently determined the exact means by which bacteria can swap genetic material with one another -- something they conclude can spark the outbreak of infectious diseases.
They have dubbed the process horizontal gene transfer, something that has... Read More »
U.S. agencies need a more predictable and accessible source of funds to support a rapid response to public health emergencies, including outbreaks of disease and bioterror attacks, U.S. Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) said Wednesday.
Cole addressed a panel of government officials testifying at a House... Read More »
The U.S. military would take steps to secure access to the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) needed to use many communication and navigational devices and to ward off enemy attempts at jamming or deception, under a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.
The U.S.... Read More »
A new report, Breaking Through, released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine last week seeks to address the future of biomedical research with a list of improvement recommendations for essentially all levels of involvement.
Congress, the National Institutes of Health... Read More »
The University of Virginia’s cybersecurity team topped 234 schools from around the nation to win the 2018 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC).
The challenge - underwritten by Raytheon, a technology and innovation firm specializing in defense, civil government and... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) recently released its 2018 Mobile Security Research and Development (R&D) Program Guide, which introduces the program’s technology projects, goals, and objectives.
The Mobile Security R&D Program aims to address... Read More »
Researchers maintain they now have knowledge of how the highly contagious norovirus gets started.
Work of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis scientists published in Science showed in mice the virus infects a rare tuft cell - referencing while tuft cells are few in number, the... Read More »
Researchers based at Georgetown University Medical Center recently developed an online tool to enter a mix of local conditions and political constraints in their region to determine how control measures have been integrated.
The app, which was made possible by support from the Bill & Melinda... Read More »
Anthrax vaccine BioThrax gained market authorization in five countries in the European Union (EU) on Thursday after manufacturer Emergent BioSolutions successfully completed the mutual recognition procedure application process.
Emergent will market the BioThrax in Italy, the Netherlands,... Read More »
A mobile, laptop-based intelligence program created by the Raytheon Company has become the focus of the U.S. Army, in an effort to give soldiers greater battlefield information collection and access.
The program is commercially available currently, but the Army wishes to see the FoXTEN system... Read More »
Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are working to improve the U.S. biosurveillance system that warns authorities of disease outbreaks by mimicking the human immune system.
The CDC... Read More »
After 20 years, scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute have identified how a surface protein of malaria -- TRAP -- interacts with proteins on the surface of human cells, offering a new vaccine target.
The human surface protein in question is a receptor known as an integrin. In their... Read More »
Thirteen market-ready cybersecurity technologies will be demonstrated by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) researchers at partners from April 16-20 at the 2018 RSA Conference in San Francisco.
S&T will demonstrate new cybersecurity technologies like AI-Analyst,... Read More »
A new blood test published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine claims the ability to predict TB’s onset up to two years prior to its development in people living with active TB.
While other tests currently exist that track TB progression, professor Gerhard Walzl,... Read More »
In a report published in a recent issue of the journal Cell, researchers argued that a refocus of anti-influenza efforts may be needed, with the protein neuraminidase cited as a potentially important point for decreasing flu severity and infection alike.
Historically, flu vaccines have been... Read More »
The explosion of a newly identified coronavirus led to the deaths of nearly 25,000 piglets between 2016-2017 in China and experts have linked the deadly virus to horseshoe bats.
While the virus does not appear to infect people, it has been devastating to swine herds. In turn, the researchers --... Read More »
Focused on the growing threat of antimicrobial drug resistance among their targets, infection specialists have joined researchers from India and France in an antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) program meant to limit use of antimicrobial drug therapies in hospitals.
Currently, there exists no... Read More »
