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MRIGlobal Celebrates 80 Years of Scientific Excellence
MRIGlobal is celebrating 80 years of scientific excellence. From helping send astronauts into space and protecting key national security assets to supporting the global response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic, MRIGlobal has been instrumental in improving lives through scientific and engineering research. In early 1944, Kansas City’s visionary and […]
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MRIGlobal’s Values Shape Our Culture
Our values are the beliefs and ideals that shape our culture, behavior, and the quality of our science. At MRIGlobal, our values are lived through our actions, decisions, and interactions with one another and our customers. As part of our rebrand, which you can read more about at “MRIGlobal Celebrates 80 Years of Scientific Excellence,” […]
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Brand Week Celebrated New Brand Launch
Weeks prior to the MRIGlobal public brand launch, employees were first introduced to the brand to build a shared understanding of the new direction and boost excitement among colleagues. To celebrate MRIGlobal’s new brand, which you can read more about at “MRIGlobal Celebrates 80 Years of Scientific Excellence,” all employees were invited to participate in […]
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CRISPR Gene Editing
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats or CRISPR for short. Within DNA clusters there are sequences that are exactly that-regularly interspaced, palindromic in that they can be read the same way frontward and backward, and repeating. And between them are what scientists call spacers, which are identical to viruses that infect bacteria called bacteriophages. CRISPR […]
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Bacteriophages as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic
Bacteriophages (phages) are everywhere, the most numerous viruses in the world. They colonize your hands, the inside of your mouth, lungs, and even your gut. Without so much as sneeze or a cough, you’re transmitting them to everyone around you. And they are the deadliest viruses on the planet … but only to bacteria. A […]
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Point-of-Need Diagnostics
Have you ever swabbed inside your nose and used that sample to help diagnose if you have the flu or COVID-19? Or maybe you peed on a pregnancy test. The technology that makes those and other diagnostic tests like them possible is rooted in chemistry and enables people to manage their health from the privacy […]
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Field-Forward Devices Democratize Diagnostics
Endemic in all of Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, and in Asia, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by a tick-borne virus. Its symptoms can include fever, muscle pains, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, and even bleeding into the skin. Found across the Southern Hemisphere, Zika virus is spread by the bite of an infected […]
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10 Years Since the West Africa Ebola Outbreak
Just over 10 years ago, in March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the forested rural region of southeastern Guinea. The identification of these early cases marked the beginning of the West Africa Ebola outbreak, the largest in history. While infectious diseases like Ebola aren’t new, where, […]
Biological Threats Emergency Response Laboratory Training -
Developing Standards for Degradation, Destruction, and Neutralization
The collection and subsequent cleanup of illicit production, distribution, and use sites is a risky operation for law enforcement and the contractors typically hired to perform such site remediation. The use of products proven through rigorous and standardized testing will enable a safe, expedited, and more thorough cleaning of these types of sites and provide […]
Analytical Chemistry CBRNE Research & CTI Chemical Threats -
Testing and Evaluation with Decades of Expertise, World-Class Laboratories
More than 100 years after chemical warfare agents were first deployed on the battlefields of World War I, traditional and emerging chemical agents and toxic industrial chemicals remain a threat to members of the military and the civilian population. This makes it critical that these and other threats are effectively detected, mitigated, and the sites […]
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Chemical Detection Libraries Support Testing and Evaluation
Our teams of scientists and engineers are committed to providing innovative solutions to the important challenges presented by our clients. Specifically, our CBRNE team’s experience includes assessing benchtop, handheld, and mobile detection systems. But before that equipment goes into the field, it must first be tested and evaluated to ensure that it will work as […]
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MRIGlobal Proud to Serve as Platinum Presenting Sponsor of Greater Kansas City Science and Engineering Fair
Our second President & CEO, Dr. Charles N. Kimball, helped establish the Greater Kansas City Science and Engineering Fair with the goal of developing and retaining scientific knowledge and expertise in the Midwest. Today, supporting and inspiring students from elementary, middle, and high schools from across the 15-county region, the awards ceremony for the event […]
