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Laboratory Planning and Preparedness to Mitigate Risk
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the general public’s familiarity with the concept of risk assessment increased dramatically. For many of us, what had once been routine activities were abruptly scrutinized to determine whether and how they could be performed safely. Consider the act of buying groceries. Probably for the first time, you and other able-bodied, independently […]
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Biosafety and the Workplace
Biosafety is a discipline that is most often applied to work in the laboratory or to research-related activities. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up, organizations started to understand their risks in the workplace outside the laboratory and the applicability of biosafety became apparent. It was at this point that they called our team at […]
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Looming Challenges to Continuity
Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, there are countless other looming challenges that could potentially disrupt the continuity of your day-to-day operations. By understanding which of these many diseases, natural disasters, and otherwise disruptive challenges may impact your operational continuity, you can be better prepared to mitigate those impacts. In each of these situations, there is potential […]
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MRIGlobal Helps Accelerate Approval of Hep C Diagnostic
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 50 million people globally have a chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. HCV is a bloodborne virus that affects the liver and can lead to lifelong illness including liver cirrhosis and cancer, which can be life-threatening. It is also estimated that in 2022, approximately 242,000 people died due […]
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Developing Custom Pathogen Detection Panels
Anthrax, botulism, and plague. Most people are familiar with these names but may not recognize the significant work it takes to keep these and other biological agents from posing a threat. As part of this work, our team at MRIGlobal develops custom pathogen detection panels, creating solutions that help maintain public health and safety. Bio-Preparedness […]
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How Bad is H5N1?
Since the 1960s, a strain of influenza has impacted wild bird populations across North America. By 1997, it reached a poultry population in Hong Kong, and the first known humans were infected. By 2009, it was detected in commercial poultry in British Columbia, infecting more humans and killing 263. Today, a new variant is impacting […]
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Agricultural Biosurveillance
With the goal of limiting disease spread among on-farm animals, agricultural biosurveillance can play a critical role. The H5N1 virus, more commonly known as avian influenza or “bird flu,” is spreading on farms in poultry and herds of dairy cows. Agricultural biosurveillance can support early detection by helping to gather, integrate, and interpret essential information […]
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Development of mRNA Vaccines
While DNA serves as the blueprint for life, mRNA (Messenger Ribonucleic Acid) is the instructions for cells to express different proteins. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was used in mRNA vaccines to prompt the body’s immune system to produce a specific antigen and effectively combat the virus. Today, it is also being used in the […]
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Improving Safety and Efficacy of CRISPR Drug Substances
CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a revolutionary gene-editing tool that has sparked excitement since its discovery in 2011. Since then, its contributions to agriculture, the discovery of emerging pathogens, and disease diagnostics and therapeutics have been immense. Recently, the first CRISPR edited cell therapy-based therapeutic was approved for treatment of […]
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Emerging and Re-Emerging Chemical Threats (part 3)
Weapons of mass destruction – WMDs. Chemical agents, chemical weapons, chemical threat agents, chemical threats. They can go by a lot of names and are used in conflicts around the world, but they all refer to chemicals that can be weaponized as poisonous vapors, aerosols, liquids, or solids that have toxic effects on people, whether […]
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Chemical Threat Destruction and New Methodologies
In July 2023, the last chemical munition of the United States’ declared chemical weapons stockpile was irreversibly destroyed in accordance with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), making it the last of the chemical weapons from the stockpiles declared by all States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) to be destroyed, as confirmed by The […]
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MRIGlobal Are Kansas City Corporate Challenge Winners… Again!
For the fourth consecutive year, and fifth out of the past six, MRIGlobal has taken gold in our division of the Kansas City Corporate Challenge. This Olympic-style series of events – including basketball, track & field, pickleball, cornhole, flag football, swimming, and many others – is hosted at locations across the city. And in five […]
