Tag Archives: medicine

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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Posted in Articles, DoDLive Science, Featured, Life Sciences, Photos, Research, Rotator | Tagged antibiotic-resistant infection, bacteriophage, cocktail, Department of Defense (DoD), DoD, DOD and science, DoD Armed with Science, Doris Ryan, environmental phages, laboratory model, medicine, Naval Medical Research Center, Naval Medical Research Center Public Affairs, navy, nmrc, proof-of-concept, researchers, study, success, therapeutic, therapy, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, wrair | Comments Off

Navy Researchers Explore Genetic Diversity of Lassa Virus

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Yolanda R. Arrington

The deadly Lassa virus is widespread in parts of West Africa. Navy scientists are studying its genetic diversity to aid the development of a vaccine.
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Posted in Articles, Research | Tagged medical research, medicine, NRL, research, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USNRL | Comments Off

The Military’s Organ and Tissue Banking

Posted on January 27, 2015 by jtozer

Recent progress through the DoD’s new small business innovation research (SBIR) programs may soon lead to a world without organ transplant waiting lists.
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Posted in Articles, Education & Culture, Life Sciences, STEM | Tagged armed forces institute of regenerative medicine, banking, combat, cryobanking, Director of the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, DoD’s Tissue Injury and Regenerative Medicine Program, Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, Johns Hopkins, Lt. Col. Alvarez, medicine, military organ and tissue banking, new small business innovation research (SBIR) programs, organ, regenerative, sbir, stem cells, tissue, transplant, transplant medicine, transplants, treatment | Comments Off

Brains On Display

Posted on June 26, 2013 by jtozer

Come one! Come all! Come see the morbid, eerie displays the likes of which you have never seen! Monstrous sights! Ghoulish apparitions! From something unnatural? Or not of this world? Let your eyes be the guide to the WORLD…of today. …
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Posted in Scientific Military History, Videos | Tagged 25 million medical specimens, Abraham Lincoln, armed with science, brains on display, Einstein's brain, health, health and medicine, Jessica L. Tozer, medicine, military history, military medical history, monstrous sights, National Museum of Health and Medicine, no freak show, this is the place death delights to help the living | Comments Off

Metamaterials & Plasmonics

Posted on April 1, 2013 by jtozer

What do you know about metamaterials and plasmonics? Well you’re about to learn a little more (or what those are in general)! Dr. Paras N. Prasad, a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Medicine and Electrical Engineering at the State University …
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Posted in Videos | Tagged afosr, air force, chemistry, Department of Defense, Dr. Paras N. Prasad, Electrical Engineering, medicine, metamaterials, military science and technology, physics, plasmonics, science videos, State University of New York, University of Buffalo, USAF | Comments Off

Stronger Compounds, New Solutions

Posted on August 16, 2012 by jtozer

What if you could take a naturally occurring compound and make it stronger so that it could make food last longer, create better flame-retardant material, and possibly develop a cancer- fighting drug? Research chemists at Natick Soldier Research, Development and …
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Posted in STEM, Uncategorized | Tagged anti-browning compound, cancer drugs, chemical process, chemist, co-polymerization, co-polymerized compounds, compound, Department of Defense, Development and Engineering Center, food, health, hydroxytyrosol, improvements, labels, medicine, Natick Soldier Research, Polymerization, polymerize, quercetin, RDECOM, research, safety, science, solutions | Comments Off

A Hilltop in Foggy Bottom – Brother Against Brother & A New Mission

Posted on July 17, 2012 by jtozer

The home of the Old Naval Observatory (1844-1893) and the Navy Medical Department (1894-2012) is where many firsts in science and technology took place. This is where the science of oceanography was born, where the moons of Mars were discovered, where the underwater path of …
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Posted in Scientific Military History, Videos | Tagged Civil War, historical, History, Mars, medicine, military medicine, Naval Medical School, Navy Medical Department, Old Naval Observatory, Scientific Military History, Thermal & Mountain Medicine Division, transatlantic cable, U.S. Navy, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, underwater path, videos, westward expansion | Comments Off

A Hilltop in Foggy Bottom: Light House In The Sky And Pathfinder Of The Seas

Posted on July 16, 2012 by jtozer