VMRD leases from port to fight COVID-19

COLFAX – At the Thursday, April 16, Port of Whitman County meeting, Port Properties and Development Director Debbie Snell informed the port commissioners on a temporary lease by Veterinary Medical Research & Development at Henley Court in the Pullman Industrial Park.

Senior Vice President of Products, Sam Srikanth said VMRD is working with a human diagnostics company to fill and package a molecular transport media that kills the SARS CoV-2 virus. He said this type of molecular transport media they are creating preserves the nucleic acids so it will make samples safe and easy to transport to la...