Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 10.15.2018
The Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) Science Review (JSR) fosters collaboration, cooperation and innovation by allowing program managers and senior leadership to understand the latest warfighter-driven technologies in development....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 10.15.2018
DNA-based nucleic acid vaccines have the potential to become a universal platform solution to viral threat agents. The U.S. Department of Defense is currently developing DNA vaccines to protect against a variety of viral threats including alphaviruses, filoviruses and hantaviruses....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 10.15.2018
When Ebola virus disease (EVD) reared its head in May in the Congo, the world was armed with the rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine thanks to interagency collaboration efforts by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 10.24.2017
Share innovative ideas with more than 1,500 of the most influential scientists, program managers and leaders in the defense community at the 2017 Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology (CBD S&T) Conference Nov. 28-30, 2017, in Long Beach, Calif....
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 02.07.2017
The Ebola virus, a type of filovirus, was first identified in 1976 resulting in a 50 to 90 percent mortality rate. Since then, five significant outbreaks have plagued West Africa, and the potential to weaponize the virus is a threat too dangerous to ignore. Now the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Joint Science and Technology Office, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious......
Courtesy Story | Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department | 01.10.2017
In a world of nanotechnologies and microchips, the ability for large-scale processes to take place on the microscale are becoming increasingly prevalent, even in the environment of combating chemical and biological threats to our warfighters. A research effort by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Joint Science and Technology Office, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Wake Forest......
