{"id":167130,"date":"2023-07-08T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/darpas-new-shield-program-plans-to-purge-your-blood-of-pathogens-roomba-style"},"modified":"2023-07-08T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T17:24:53","slug":"darpas-new-shield-program-plans-to-purge-your-blood-of-pathogens-roomba-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/darpas-new-shield-program-plans-to-purge-your-blood-of-pathogens-roomba-style","title":{"rendered":"DARPA\u2019S New SHIELD Program Plans to Purge Your Blood of Pathogens, Roomba-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MqVh54PlRog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to this week\u2019s installment of <em>The Intelligence Brief\u2026 <\/em>in recent days, DARPA has announced a new program that aims to protect warfighters from bloodstream infections caused by bacterial and fungal agents. This week, we\u2019ll be examining 1) the announcement of the agency\u2019s new SHIELD program, 2) past challenges that inspired the new DARPA initiative, and 3) how they say SHIELD will manage to clean your bloodstream, similar to a Roomba.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quote of the Week<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIf an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet \u2013 microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to this week\u2019s installment of The Intelligence Brief\u2026 in recent days, DARPA has announced a new program that aims to protect warfighters from bloodstream infections caused by bacterial and fungal agents. This week, we\u2019ll be examining 1) the announcement of the agency\u2019s new SHIELD program, 2) past challenges that inspired the new DARPA initiative, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}