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Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) reported on August 11 that they have formulated a nasal spray that can help ward off the coronavirus. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source was involved in research supporting the product; that research...

In July, Navy medical providers mobilized to Texas to assist providers there with the fight against COVID-19. This latest mobilization continued U.S. Northern Command’s pandemic response in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) request for Defense Support to Civil Authorities...

A new combination of materials, developed by small businesses in New Mexico and tested by Sandia National Laboratories, is being manufactured into N95-like respirators that could be used in local medical facilities for COVID-19 response efforts. The project originated from the urgent need for...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC), an ambitious effort that will harness the power of artificial intelligence and medical imaging to fight COVID-19. The multi-institutional collaboration, led by the National Institute of...

A Budget Priorities Memorandum issued August 14 by the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology (S&T) Policy underscores the importance of commercializing federally funded research for the nation's future economic health. The memo lists five research and...

The National Science & Technology Council on August 14 published a cybersecurity research and development (R&D) roadmap, detailing key programs planned by federal agencies to meet the objectives of a federal cybersecurity strategic plan issued in 2019. The Fiscal Year 2021 Federal...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on August 15 issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 test resulting from an unusual research partnership between the Yale School of Public Health and the National Basketball Association. The EUA was granted to Yale for its SalivaDirect...

Louisiana-based medical device company Prep Tech has signed a license agreement for the U.S. Army’s patent-pending COVID-19 Airway Management Isolation Chamber (CAMIC), according to an August 11 statement. The CAMIC is a see-through physical barrier invented in March by Army health care...