Infectious Disease Outbreak Articles & Analysis
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Kephera Diagnostics announced today that it has been awarded a two-year, $1,989,300 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to complete the development and launch of a new test for Zika virus infection. Kephera’s test is aimed at detecting Zika ...
We are now gaining an understanding of the impact of this global pandemic. Infection rate drives the need for better data collection, analysis and reporting in real-time. Addressing contamination control for our healthcare facilities becomes ground zero in preventing and controlling an outbreak. In their efforts to fight the pandemic and contain its spread, Novatek Medical Data Systems has ...
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, chaired by Senator Lamar Alexander, will hold an important hearing today to examine lessons learned from the current global health crisis to help make sure we are better prepared for the next pandemic. Public health expert and patient advocate, Dr. Julie Gerberding, will join the discussion, alongside former top policy leaders. The ...
To accelerate national, multi-institutional efforts focused on mapping coronavirus transmission and epidemiological studies, Thermo Fisher Scientific today announces the SARS-CoV-2 GlobalAccess Sequencing Program for research consortia and industry groups battling the spread of the pandemic globally. Under the program, the company will provide 50 units of the Ion Torrent Genexus System at a ...
NanoPin Technologies, Inc., whose mission is to develop advanced diagnostics to improve the lives of millions of individuals affected by infectious disease, announces the formation of a collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific to refine the liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LCMS)-based workflow to allow robust and highly sensitive clinical application of NanoPin’s proprietary ...