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African Journal of Laboratory Medicine Features MRIGlobal Mobile Laboratory Expertise
MRIGlobal, with its decades of experience working hand-in-hand with government agencies and commercial clients, partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense during the Ebola crisis to design, fabricate, equip, deploy and operate two mobile diagnostic laboratories in West Africa. The peer-reviewed African Journal of Laboratory Medicine article, “The deployment of mobile diagnostic laboratories for Ebola […]
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MRIGlobal Chief Science Advisor Part of Ambitious Pandemic Response Team
MRIGlobal Chief Science Advisor Gene G. Olinger, Ph.D. is a part of an international team of scientists that has have formed a plan for an accelerated pipeline for developing drug cocktails to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The pipeline could speed new and better treatments that the newly diagnosed and recently exposed could take at home […]
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Coronavirus Vaccine FAQ
Listen to the complete interview at KCUR.org. Missouri just topped 400,000 COVID-19 cases and a new strain of the coronavirus is being reported in the United Kingdom. Experts say the local coronavirus vaccine rollout is going as expected and 60% herd immunity is the minimum goal needed to be successful in controlling the spread of […]
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Teen STEM lab championed by Travis Kelce goes zero-carbon solar with boost from KC corporate leaders
A solar installation at Operation Breakthrough’s new Ignition Lab on Troost Avenue is expected to power the STEM space for students – made possible by a team of Kansas City corporate leaders committed to clean energy and support for the Travis Kelce-backed complex. Read more at StartlandNews.com. Mounted atop a central canopy at the site, […]
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Kansas City won’t escape omicron, COVID-19’s newest variant
The standard advice for dealing with the coronavirus still holds true for the new variant. Listen to the full interview at KCUR.org. How concerned you should be about the latest coronavirus variant depends on a number of factors, says virologist Gene Olinger of Kansas City’s MRIGlobal. “If you are an immunocompromised individual or a person […]
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MRIGlobal and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), managed by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Gains Two R&D 100 Awards
D World Magazine presented the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with two of its annual R&D 100 Awards for research innovations. MRIGlobal is one of the two entities in the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, that manages and operates NREL. The two winning NREL technologies include: Additionally, MRIGlobal’s design of […]
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MRIGlobal Announces Award Of Prestigious R&D World Magazine 100 Awards As Top Innovations: MRIGlobal’s Design Of Ballistic Gas Chromatograph Wins Award In Analytical Instrumentation Category
MRIGlobal’s design of Ballistic Gas Chromatograph (BGC) was awarded an R&D100 Award for Innovation by R&D World Magazine. MRIGlobal’s BGC is an analytical instrument designed for use in process air, safety air, and chemical monitoring. It collects vapor air samples, desorbs the sample into a gas chromatography column to separate chemicals, detects the chemicals using […]
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DARPA to Develop Hand-Held Disease Detection Device
Soon military leaders may be able to track diseases spreading among their troops using a device that fits in the palm of their hand. Read more at NationalDefenseMagazine.com. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put together a team of scientists and engineers in May to head the Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies program, or […]
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Portable device in development for early detection of infectious diseases
Major infectious diseases, like COVID-19, often go undetected until they spread. Spotting the problem in a community isn’t easy, in part because infectious disease detection, which is the foundation for surveillance and contact tracing, can take hours, if not days. Read more at Med-TechNews.com. Compounding the problem is that traditional detection assays are designed a […]
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MRIGlobal’s latest effort to combat Covid-19 brings Homeland Security contract
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded a testing contract to Kansas City-based MRIGlobal that could reach $2 billion. Read more in the Kansas City Business Journal. MRIGlobal will address managed testing services and molecular diagnostic test kits, the nonprofit announced in a release. The department awarded four one-year contracts, each of which has […]
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Neal Sharma Joins MRIGlobal Board of Directors
MRIGlobal announces the appointment of Neal Sharma to its Board of Directors. Sharma is also a Trustee of the organization.Neal SharmaNeal Sharma is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DEG, a full-service digital marketing agency partner for national and global brands. “Neal is a dynamic executive with impressive credentials in digital marketing, entrepreneurship and civic […]
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Kansas City’s MRIGlobal Wins $2 Million Defense Contract For Mobile Lab COVID-19 Testing
MRIGlobal, a Kansas City research institute, will ship three mobile medical labs to the U.S. Army to conduct rapid coronavirus testing and processing. The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded the company a $2 million contract for labs, according to a government news release. MRIGlobal has been designing, equipping and staffing these mobile units around […]
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