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 | 03.06.2017
Fort Belvoir, Va. - A milestone in medical science, the first laboratory-grown organ was implanted into a patient in 1999 by Dr. Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM). The bladder was not synthetic or simulated tissue, but engineered to be biologically similar to the patient’s original bladder cells. For the past 18 years, the WFIRM team has continued......
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......
