Asymptomatic COVID-19 cases are the bane of computer modelers’ existences — they throw off the modeling data to an unknown degree. You can’t measure what you can’t detect, right? A new approach from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Division, however, explores using historic epidemic...

ATCC (American Type Culture Collection), a nonprofit biological resource center and standards organization, has been awarded more than $5.5 million in grants by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to identify and characterize novel therapeutic approaches to viruses of global health concern...

By many measures, 2020 — a year dominated by an emerging pandemic and overrun with natural disasters — was bad for business. A multitude of variables affected the ability of businesses to adapt, but according to new research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the...

A new study by researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) suggests that COVID-19 infection without symptoms in generally healthy unvaccinated adults is significantly less common than previously reported. The study, “Prospective assessment of symptoms to evaluate...

Researchers from the Uniformed Services University’s (USU) Postgraduate Dental College and the Dental Research and Consultative Services at Joint Base San-Antonio-Lackland were awarded a patent for inventing a self-healing dental composite. That’s right: a self-repairing composite that works...

The opioid epidemic kills more than 100,000 Americans a year. At the core of this crisis is the extremely potent and deadly synthetic substance fentanyl, which scientists estimate has hundreds of millions of possible chemical variants. First responders rely on chemical libraries of variants to help...

Researchers from the Agricultural Research Service and Ohio State University have invented a procedure for making renewable fuel from sweet sorghum bagasse, the pulp remains from stalks of this hardy type of grass. Bio-butanol provides 33 percent more energy per gallon than gasoline and can be...

Join representatives from the Small Business Administration, NASA, U.S. Army, and National Science Foundation for the panel, “Startups and Government: Unlocking $4B in Funding.” This panel will focus on spurring participation by women and disadvantaged people; ensuring commercialization; and...

A modeling study from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) raises questions about how far respiratory droplets, like those that transmit the virus that causes COVID-19, can travel before becoming harmless. Can the airborne particles that carry the virus remain infectious not just for a few...

The U.S. Census Bureau this week launched Phase 8 of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), which includes new questions designed to gauge the impact of COVID-19 on the nation’s small businesses. Initial results of the latest phase of the experimental survey are set to be released next week on...

The Department of Energy is seeking feedback on hydrogen technology investments as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This includes $8 billion for job-creating Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs; a $1 billion Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis Program to reduce costs of clean electricity-produced...

Help advance solutions for homeland security challenges! The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is offering researchers up to $225,000 to accelerate the development of federally funded innovations related to the department’s mission. Federal labs and...

National Security Innovation Capital (NSIC), a new component of the Department of Defense’s innovation ecosystem, is looking to partner with domestic startups that are developing dual-use hardware products with both commercial and defense applications. Startups, including those already receiving...

A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team has developed a comprehensive dynamic model of COVID-19 disease progression in hospitalized patients, which suggests that risk factors for complications from the disease are dependent on the patient’s disease state. Using a machine learning...

When both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) needed to prioritize hospital support in New England during the COVID-19 omicron variant surge in the beginning of January...

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Heidelberg University in Germany have cranked up the speed of imaging infected cells, giving scientists an easy way to quickly examine how our cells’ internal machinery responds to SARS-CoV-2, or other pathogens, as well as...

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are studying how aerosol viral particles are distributed in a ventilated classroom. Using ORNL’s Summit, the nation’s fastest supercomputer, the team simulated the...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating the way it monitors COVID-19’s impact on our communities with a new tool focused on community-specific risk for severe cases that strain local healthcare systems. Widespread availability of vaccines and testing, advances in treatments...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded nearly $54 million in grants for 13 high-impact projects for research, development and testbeds for pandemic response. The funding, which was provided by the American Rescue Act, will support projects at eight manufacturing...

As part of the Biden administration’s plan to revitalize American manufacturing and secure critical supply chains in 2022, FLC partner the Small Business Administration will host the inaugural America’s Seed Fund Start-up Expo. The event will support Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)...