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NMRC and WRAIR Team Up to Launch Joint West Africa Research Group in Nigeria

Posted on October 18, 2016 by challer

The JWARG’s mission is to support the Department of Defense’s force health protection requirements for emerging infectious disease while building partnerships in West Africa to address lessons observed in the 2014-2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD).
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (Aug. 9, 2016) Cmdr. Michael Stockelman, deputy director of the Infectious Diseases Directorate at the Naval Medical Research Center, shows petri dishes containing pathogens used in phage research. The Naval Medical Research Center, in collaboration with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, successfully combated an antibiotic-resistant infection in a laboratory model through bacteriophage therapy, which uses viruses found in the environment that are known for their activity against bacteria. (Photo by NMRC Public Affairs)

Navy Medicine Researchers Develop Therapeutic Cocktail of Environmental Phages to Overcome Antibiotic-Resistant Infection

Posted on August 18, 2016 by challer

NMRC worked in collaboration with Navy Medicine’s overseas laboratories to collect phages from environmental sources around the world and personalized them so they could be made by selecting multiple individual phages to create phage mixes customized to the needs of each patient.
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Improving Prosthetics for Amputees

Posted on December 21, 2015 by glenn.selby

The Naval Medical Research Center hosted the first DoD Osseointegration Program steering committee meeting to plan osseointegration (OI) prosthesis trials.

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A New Frontier for Understanding Brain Injury

Posted on September 29, 2015 by glenn.selby

A Department at the Naval Medical Research Center has adopted an approach to develop an understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind TBI.
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Motivation STEMS From Learning

Posted on June 17, 2012 by jtozer

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is sailing full speed ahead nationally as Navy laboratories, including the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), participate in the program and are committed to the improvement of STEM over the next decade. NMRC …
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Engineering Next Generation DNA Vaccines

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Armed with Science

Doris Ryan works at the Naval Medical Research Center. Her blog post was originally published in Naval Medical Research and Development News. As part of the U.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program (USMMVP), the NavalMedical Research Center (NMRC) hosted Dr. David B. Weiner, …
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US Navy and Mexican Scientists Train in Respiratory Pathogen Detection

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Armed with Science

Dr. Chris Myers works at the Naval Health Research Center. This blog post was shared with us by Naval Medical Research and Development News, a publication of the Naval Medical Research Center. Ms. Patricia Gabino-Noriega and Ms. Monica Guadalupe Viveros-Terrazas from the …
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Navy Scientists Testing Anti-Motion Sickness Gel

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Armed with Science

This blog post was shared with us by the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory‘s Quarterly Science Update. Motion sickness is a wide-spread, often debilitating problem across the Services. Military scientists have studied the drug scopolamine as the leading countermeasure to …
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