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Sandia honored for fighting Ebola, analyzing emerging biotechnologies
April 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The work of Sandia National Laboratories at the intersection of biology and national security, including lifesaving efforts during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, has been recognized by the Department of Energy. On April 11, Dmitri Kusnezov, chief scientist and senior adviser to the secretary of energy, visited Sandia...
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Paula Austin outside an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

Sandia researchers discover mechanism for Rift Valley fever virus infection
June 16, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Brooke Harmon, a virologist at Sandia National Laboratories, led research that found a cellular pathway for Rift Valley fever virus infection, the first step in developing treatment for the  highly infectious deadly disease. (P…
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Sandia, UCLA develop screening libraries to discover drug targets for viral infections
April 4, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — As headlines highlight the threat of viruses like Ebola and Zika, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have teamed up to discover and uncover the viral mechanisms of infection by creating screen…
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Lighting up disease-carrying mosquitoes
March 21, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Mosquitoes are deadly efficient at spreading disease. Despite vaccines and efforts to eradicate the pesky insects, they continue to infect humans with feared diseases like Zika virus, malaria and West Nile virus.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="…
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‘Laboratory Biorisk Management’ details safety, security methods for biosciences sites
August 25, 2015 • Sandia, international experts publish first biorisk management how-to book ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Recent mishaps at laboratories that mishandled potentially dangerous biological substances and the transmission of the Ebola virus in a U.S. hospital are symptoms at bioscience facilities that two Sandia National Laboratories researchers think could be prevented by implementing...
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