Tag: U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  • Nation & World

    Wyss Institute to accelerate drug testing for COVID treatment

    With a $16 million agreement from DARPA, Harvard’s Wyss Institute will use its technology to identify and test already FDA-approved drugs that may prevent or treat COVID-19 infection.

    9 minutes
    Amir Bein checks a batch of human organ chips in the lab.
  • Nation & World

    Alleviating radiation sickness

    A combination of two drugs may alleviate radiation sickness in people who have been exposed to high levels of radiation, even when the therapy is given a day after the exposure occurred, according to a study led by scientists from Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Children’s Hospital Boston.

    6 minutes