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Archive: August, 2024

ASC Faces of the Force - Just Keep Moving
August 29, 2024 — Read the full article featuring JPEO-CBRND's JPM CBRN Medical staff member Briana Kenerson - https://asc.army.mil/web/news-just-keep-moving/ MORE

JPEO-CBRND and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Open Doors to Rapid Response Laboratory in support of GUIDE Program
August 5, 2024 — On August 01, 2024, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open a rapid response laboratory on their campus in Livermore, California. In coordination with the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense and LLNL, the Joint Program Executive Office for... MORE

Three DOD leaders cut the ribbon on the opening of a new high-powered computing facility for CBRN threat defense

JPEO-CBRND Successfully Fulfills First Year of Annual Procurement Requirement for BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed)
August 2, 2024 — On July 24, 2024, the Department of Defense (DOD) fulfilled the final Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 delivery of 626,870 doses of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed), a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for anthrax disease. This marks the completion of the first annual delivery – part of a larger... MORE

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Are we there yet? Agent agnostic metagenome sequencing for biothreat detection
August 1, 2024 — For decades real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) has been the gold standard for biothreat detection across the enterprise engaged in biodefense. Since its advent in 2005, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies have made significant strides in genomics, marching towards adoption into various realms of biology and medicine including... MORE

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