Courtesy Photo | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 12.14.2016
By combining freeze-dried, cell-free (FD-CF) reaction pellets with DNA instructions for protein synthesis, therapeutics and other molecular tools can be manufactured on-site, on-demand with the simple addition of water, circumventing the need for cold-chain distribution and storage. The utility and versatility of this portable biomanufacturing platform was demonstrated for the production of a......
Courtesy Photo | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 08.16.2016
The rapid design, assembly and validation of paper-based biomolecular sensors for the portable detection of Zika virus is shown here. Using sequence information from online databases, primers for isothermal RNA amplification and toehold switch-based RNA sensors are designed in silico using algorithms. Sensors are embedded into paper discs and freeze-dried along with a cell-free transcription......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Shawna Keyes | 4th Fighter Wing | 11.19.2015
Airman 1st Class Alexis Kogel, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron test, measurement and diagnostic equipment technician, inserts a pressure value into a pressure controller, Nov. 19, 2015, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. Even when the jets aren’t flying, the Airmen of the precision measurement equipment lab work around-the-clock to service equipment for F-15E Strike Eagles and other......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Shawna Keyes | 4th Fighter Wing | 11.19.2015
Senior Airman Ronald Medina, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron test, measurement and diagnostic equipment technician, installs a pressure transducer at a test cell, Nov. 19, 2015, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. As well as conducting in-house calibrations, technicians also go to various units throughout the base to perform standardizations on-site. (U.S. Air Force......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Shawna Keyes | 4th Fighter Wing | 11.18.2015
Senior Airman Emilio Blanco (left), 4th Component Maintenance Squadron avionics flight support team leader, receives equipment from Senior Airman Reggie Graves, 4th CMS precision measurement equipment lab production control technician, Nov. 18, 2015, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. The test, measurement and diagnostic equipment flight’s scheduling section handles all incoming and......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Shawna Keyes | 4th Fighter Wing | 11.18.2015
Senior Airman Kasey Weidman, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron test, measurement and diagnostic equipment technician, prepares to calibrate a caliper using gauge blocks, Nov. 18, 2015, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. The precision measurement equipment lab handles anywhere from 20 to 60 items on a daily basis. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Shawna L. Keyes)...
Photo by Airman 1st Class Shawna Keyes | 4th Fighter Wing | 11.18.2015
Senior Airman James Laidlaw, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron test, measurement and diagnostic equipment technician, calibrates the angles of an optical prism, Nov. 18, 2015, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. The TMDE flight has its own internal quality assurance program that performs end-of-line and over-the-shoulder inspections in the precision measurement equipment lab. (U.S. Air......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Shawna Keyes | 4th Fighter Wing | 11.18.2015
Airman Eric Fischer, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron test, measurement and diagnostic equipment technician, calibrates a torque wrench, Nov. 18, 2015, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. The precision measurement equipment lab handles more than 8,500 pieces of equipment from various squadrons and other off-base agencies. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman Shawna L. Keyes)...
