Science Highlights

Super Stretchy Metal Reduces Vehicle Weight

New understanding of how to form metals leads to improved materials and manufacturing advances for lightweight aluminum car parts.

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Modeling disease transmission and related stress on public health infrastructure

Scientists are developing pandemic modeling capabilities to forecast disease transmission, stress on public health infrastructure, and economic outlook for the nation

Building a national data resource for pandemic models

The National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory (NVBL) is building a data platform that will enable the widespread collection and use of reported data influencing response outcomes

Accelerating tests for 3D-printed swabs during COVID-19 shortage

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) provided testing for prototype, 3D-printed nasopharyngeal swabs

Expanding COVID-19 test tube supply from soda bottle materials

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) partnered with The Coca-Cola Company to expand test tube production capacity using Coke bottle materials

Researchers design new molecules to inhibit viral replication in SARS-CoV-2

Novel molecules have been designed as potential inhibitors of the viral main protease

Providing an open portal for sequencing and reporting SARS-CoV-2 genomes

The US Department of Energy (DOE) National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory is facilitating SARS-CoV-2 sequencing and reporting by public health labs through the EDGE bioinformatics portal hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Evaluating PCR-based assays for COVID-19 diagnosis

Through its consortium of National Labs dedicated to COVID-19 response, the US Department of Energy’s National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory (NVBL) provides an online evaluation of PCR-based diagnostic assays.