dual-use, like it or not

As of Aug. 8, 991 people had died in Japan after receiving shots of Pfizer Inc's vaccine and 11 after receiving Moderna's  https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/two-die-japan-after-shots-suspended-moderna-vaccines-japan-govt-2021-08-28/

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7-5-2020   “This is the greatest science experiment in vaccinology that’s ever been done,” said Andrew Ward, a structural biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.  “It’s literally testing all the different technologies, and it’s going to be cool to see how this all shakes out.”

The RNA vaccines under study come from a small laboratory at Imperial College London, from the People’s Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences in China, from three large pharmaceutical companies — Pfizer, Moderna and CureVac (combined receiving ~$40 million from DARPA)— and their partners.    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-vaccine-race-messenger-rna-imperial-college/2020/07/05/6565b2d0-ba2e-11ea-97c1-6cf116ffe26c_story.html

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7-25-2018  DARPA's $1.5 billion scheme aims to reinvent the computer chip

The Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) hopes to find a way to leave silicon in the past.  https://www.zdnet.com/article/darpas-1-5-billion-scheme-aims-to-reinvent-the-computer-chip/

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       Dr. Dimitrakopoulos has spent the past 17 years as a research staff member at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Most recently he was the leader of the U. Mass. Open Demonstration Facility of Advanced Nanoelectronics Manufacturing for Defense project doing DARPA-funded graphene research.  He has spent the last six years working on large area, wafer-scale graphene growth, characterization, and optoelectronics.   http://che.umass.edu/christos-dimitrakopoulos

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