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• OMNIVAX: Broadly Deployable Infection Vaccine Platform
  Infectious diseases pose one of the greatest threats to public health, and vaccination campaigns with broad population coverage – arguably the most powerful strategy for preventing, controlling, and treating infectious diseases – have eradicated or significantly reduced the risk of contracting diseases such as smallpox, measles, polio, and tetanus. However, there is a constant need for...
• RAPID: Testing for Food Contaminants
  Contamination of food by microorganisms such as certain bacteria, viruses and fungi is a constant concern, with even miniscule amounts of certain species posing a risk for foods to become unsafe and spoiled during storage. Current safety and quality tests are often not sensitive enough to detect rare species, and because they first require the...
• FcMBL: Broad-Spectrum Pathogen Capture for Infectious Diseases
  Microbial infection is the cause of life-threatening cases of sepsis, meningitis and multiple other diseases that are major causes of death world-wide. Equally prevalent are pathogenic contaminants in our environment, food, and manufacturing processes. In each case, the presence of dangerous microbes must be confirmed, and when they are found, they need to be removed,...

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  A new weapon for the war on cancer: a broad-spectrum circulating tumor cell capture agent for diagnostics
  June 28, 2017
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  Wyss Institute startup, Opsonix Inc., honored with prestigious Spinoff Award
  May 15, 2017
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  How to diagnose systemic infections much more quickly and reliably
  June 14, 2016

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  OMNIVAX: Infection Vaccine Platform
  This video explains how OMNIVAX – an immuno-material-based vaccine technology can be used to rapidly create injectable vaccines against diverse viral and bacterial pathogens, and how the platform is used by the team to develop a vaccine against recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) in their lead human application. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University.

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  Introduction to Sepsis Diagnostic
  What if we could diagnose sepsis in just hours, not days? Wyss Institute researchers discuss their approach to a rapid sepsis diagnostic. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University