LIVERMORE, Calif. — A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Boston firm BioBright LLC to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment has become more relevant after the United States and others issued warnings that hackers were using the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their activities. “In the past decade, genomics and synthetic biology have […]
Tag Archives: biosecurity
Sandia helps safeguard biological data threatened during COVID-19 pandemic
October 6, 2020 – 5:00 am
Designing diagnostic labs that are safe, specific and sustainable
January 24, 2017 – 9:00 am
Sandia develops new method of designing high-quality public health labs faster ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An outbreak is like a wildfire; the sooner it’s caught, the easier it is to fight, said Vips Halkjaer-Knudsen, a lab design expert at Sandia National Laboratories. To detect an outbreak early — whether Ebola, Zika or influenza — healthcare workers […]
Sandia veterinarian helps make the world safer through livestock health and biosecurity
July 28, 2015 – 5:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dr. Melissa Finley’s credibility was on the line as she worked, surrounded by skeptics, to save the life of a dehydrated calf in rural Afghanistan. As a woman and a foreigner she had to earn the trust of the villagers she was trying to help. “They had never given fluids before, so […]