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Ebola Virus Disease and our Outbreak Response
Ebola. The word alone prompts an array of emotions for anyone who has encountered the virus. Great respect for the local laboratory staff who worked continually to process infectious samples, even when their own families were affected. Sadness for the many people, families, and communities impacted by the disease. Incredible responsibility for ensuring the accuracy […]
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Women in Defense Event Offered Growth Opportunities
Only 25 percent of U.S. A&D (aerospace and defense) workforce are women. Compare that with the 47 percent representation of women among all employees across the U.S. workforce. Even with 37 percent of MRIGlobal’s defense team being women, we know there is still work to be done to make our teams even more inclusive and […]
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Our Freezers Are Cold. Very Cold.
Does your freezer go down to -80oC? The freezers in our pharmaceutical stability facility do. As pharmaceuticals are under development or when finished pharmaceuticals are enrolled in on-going stability studies, manufacturers need a facility to store these products and assess them over time. Stability studies are used to generate evidence on how the quality of […]
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Expanded Warehouse Services Customer Needs
MRIGlobal is your pharmaceutical warehouse services support solution for chemicals ranging from industrial compounds posing human health concerns to natural products, drug substances, drug products, and clinical trial materials. Having recently expanded this space at our North Kansas City facility, we offer full-service warehouse management support for pharmaceutical companies needing to store their samples. With […]
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Clinical Trial Support with Centralized, Convenient Services
MRIGlobal has proudly supported pharmaceutical development for decades, and in the area of clinical trial support, our North Kansas City facility provides unmatched convenience for our pharmaceutical clients. To further support their growing needs, we have recently expanded our repository, and added new services including a Foreign-Trade Zone and a biorepository. Each area is managed […]
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Ashley Craddock Wins National Safety Council’s Diversity Award
Safety technician Ashley Craddock is all smiles. Recently, she was named one of the recipients of the National Safety Council’s Diversity in Safety Scholarships, a $5,000 tuition award, renewable up to four years. “That pays for a semester of college for me,” Ashley claps excitedly. In addition to the award, the scholarship will support her […]
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Are Consumer Drug Detection Kits Useful?
A variety of alcohol, drugs, tranquilizers, and antidepressants can be used in an effort to commit sexual assault crimes. Drug detection kits are supposed to help alert people whether their drink has been spiked, but they don’t always work as advertised. To better understand their efficacy, we evaluated six commercially available colorimetric kits, testing them […]
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Silly Putty as a Collection Material?
One aspect of our work is testing and evaluating chemical detection methods, with the goal of refining their use in the field. Sometimes, this includes investigating non-traditional detection methods. The tape lift sample collection technique is a simple and effective approach for nondestructively collecting chemical attribution signatures (CAS) from surfaces of varied sizes, shapes, and […]
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Working with Chemical, Biological, and Explosive Threats
Our CBRNE Tech Index team is focused on testing and evaluating a wide range of detection equipment and products – focused primarily on chemical, biological, and explosive threats, including threat agents and weapons – for use in the field or laboratory. Doing such specialized work means that we also must have expertise in working with […]
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Applying Big Thinking to a Small Solution
Arjun Garapaty thinks big. It wasn’t that long ago that he earned a perfect score on his ACT test… as a sophomore in high school. Now a college sophomore at University of California, Berkley majoring in Chemical Biology, Garapaty joined MRIGlobal for an undergraduate internship in the engineering department. So, what’s Arjun been doing in […]
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Laboratory Renovation Provides Customers New Space
In 2019, the Infectious Diseases and Clinical Diagnostics programs being managed off-site were transitioned to our Kansas City headquarters, moving into the newly renovated Diagnostics Center of Excellence and CLIA laboratory space. This laboratory space was modernized to accommodate our current programs, while providing the opportunity to grow our client base in this growing market […]
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Mpox Becomes a Public Health Emergency
Dr. Gene Olinger Offers Expertise on the Virus In 2022, The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the mpox (formerly called monkeypox) outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and has now done so again in Aug. 2024. In 2022, the Biden administration also declared it a public health emergency in the United States, following […]
Biological Threats Health & National Security
