DTRA-JSTO Briefing at CBRNe Convergence 2020 12.01.2020 | Video by Matthew Klein The Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department (DTRA CB), Ronald Hann, Ph.D., presented...
The Rebel with a Mysterious Cause 10.15.2020 | Courtesy Video The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department (DTRA CB) is supporting research to better understand the...
DTRA's University Engagement Webinar: Student... 09.30.2020 | Courtesy Video The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department (DTRA CB) is part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s...
Cultivating the Ebola Vaccine 08.31.2020 | Courtesy Video On December 19, 2019, the world’s first vaccine for Ebola virus disease, Ervebo, received FDA approval. The development and evaluation of Ervebo...
Threats Lingering in the Open Air 08.20.2020 | Courtesy Video To learn how biological threat agents decay upon interacting with variables in the open air, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and...
University Engagement Webinar: Doing Business with DTRA 08.01.2020 | Courtesy Video The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department (DTRA CB) is part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s...
DTRA CB Briefing at NCT Virtual USA 2020 07.21.2020 | Courtesy Video The Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department (DTRA CB), Ronald Hann, Ph.D., presented...
CHIKRisk: Mapping the Next Chikungunya Outbreak 06.15.2020 | Courtesy Video A new computer application — called CHIKRisk — uses statistical modeling to help predict the risk of an outbreak of the chikungunya virus, a...
Be Prepared: Machine Learning is Equipping Us for... 01.12.2021 | Courtesy Story Rapid Analysis of Threat Exposure (RATE) warns of an infection up to 48 hours before overt symptoms appear.
One Pill. Broad Spectrum. 10.22.2020 | Courtesy Story Threat-agnostic medicines are critical when dealing with unknowns such as COVID-19. What if one antiviral pill could counter several biological...
Packing Heat in the Fight against COVID-19. 10.22.2020 | Courtesy Story During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has quickly and safely transported COVID-19-infected warfighters and...
Heads or Tails: Many illnesses have the same... 10.06.2020 | Courtesy Story “I woke up with a cough and a sore throat. What should I do? Should I go to work? Should I see a doctor?” Without answers, these questions...
Drawing Blood at the Push of a Button: A new... 10.06.2020 | Courtesy Story When caring for sick warfighters on the battlefield, medics need to be able to draw blood efficiently and quickly. The volume of blood collected...
The Rebel with a Mysterious Cause 08.12.2020 | Courtesy Story DTRA CB is learning why one stubborn bacterium just loves humans so much. In a large family, there is at least one rebel. In the bacterial...
Just Enough: What Amounts to Success for a... 07.30.2020 | Courtesy Story The first wave of deaths in the opioid epidemic began in 1999. By 2018, more than 450,000 Americans had died from opioid intoxication or...
Threats Lingering in the Open Air 07.30.2020 | Courtesy Story A biological threat agent explodes out of a metal tube and travels toward a formation of warfighters. Thousands of aerosolized agents speed...
DTRA-JSTO Fact Sheets - 11.16.2020 This fact sheet, Innovative Chemical and Biological, Science and Technology Efforts Funded by CARES Act, is published by the Defense Threat...
DTRA-JSTO White Papers - 11.02.2020 This white paper, Biodefense in the Pandemic Era, is published by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Chemical and Biological...
DTRA-JSTO Fact Sheets - 10.26.2020 The Medical Futures Strategy for Discovery of Medical Countermeasures Against Novel Entities Fact Sheet details the background of the DOMANE...
JSTO in the News - 10.22.2020 September 2020 JSTO in the News The Fight: For years, DTRA-JSTO has been working on initiatives to fight emerging and unknown biological threat...
JSTO in the News - 10.06.2020 August 2020 JSTO in the News; two articles in this issue; article 1 is "Heads or Tails;" article 2 is "Drawing Blood at the Push of a Button"
JSTO in the News - 08.12.2020 July 2020 JSTO in the News; The Rebel with a Mysterious Cause: DTRA CB is learning why one stubborn bacterium just loves humans so much.
JSTO in the News - 07.30.2020 This is the June 2020 issue of JSTO in the News. There are two articles in this issue: 1) Just Enough: What Amounts to Success for a Synthetic...
Be Prepared: Machine Learning is Equipping Us for... 01.12.2021 | Courtesy Photo Researchers work on a new COVID-19 detection technology. DTRA-JSTO is applying the commercial technology for early detection of the severe acute...
One Pill. Broad Spectrum. 10.22.2020 | Courtesy Photo Threat-agnostic medicines are critical when dealing with unknowns such as COVID-19. Image credit: Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus...
Heads or Tails 10.06.2020 | Courtesy Photo Many illnesses have the same symptoms; diagnostic tools can beat the guessing game.
The Rebel with a Mysterious Cause 08.12.2020 | Courtesy Photo DTRA CB is learning why one stubborn bacterium just loves humans so much. Graphic courtesy of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and...
Threats Lingering in the Open Air 07.30.2020 | Courtesy Photo Chambers of the Captive Aerosol Growth and Evolution System (CAGES) at the Albuquerque, New Mexico, test site. Through CAGES, scientists examine...
Of Mice and Human: A newly constructed mouse model... 06.15.2020 | Courtesy Photo A DNA technician, with the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System DoD DNA Operations, prepares DNA for extraction. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army....
Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning: A New... 05.14.2020 | Courtesy Photo Data framework for machine learning. Source: Desiraju K. 2017. Introduction to machine learning. SlideShare website....
CHIKRisk: Mapping the Next Chikungunya Outbreak 04.27.2020 | Courtesy Photo Past informs the future: scientists leverage historical data to prepare for a future outbreak of the chikungunya virus.
