Chicago Tribune – A system that can sample a water supply to quickly detect up to 10 biological toxins has been created and is intended to protect water supplies at U.S. military bases, embassies and other sensitive installations.
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Radio Netherlands – The Netherlands appears to have taken the lead in the quest to develop a tool to mitigate the effects of bioterrorism: an instrument that can measure the presence in the air of biological warfare agents. In real-time that is; and therein lies the novelty and significance of the patented invention.
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Medical News Today – Air Force personnel will soon know within minutes if they or their equipment are contaminated with a biological agent, thanks to a new technology developed by the Air Force and a national laboratory.
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DOD – Department of Defense specialists are testing a cutting-edge technology so revolutionary military scientists said it will change the face of biological warfare. The joint biological agent identification and diagnostic system, a 40-pound device small enough to slip into a rucksack, is designed to vastly increase the speed and accuracy of biological warfare agent detection.
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Wired – A look at new techniques being developed to detect diseases.
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Health Central – A simple breath test currently under development could let doctors quickly identify who’s been infected to any one of a number of bioterror agents.
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Medical News Today [Analytical Chemistry] – Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a new “biological smoke detector” called the Autonomous Pathogen Detection System to continuously monitor the air like a “biological smoke detector,” to help protect against potential bioterrorist attacks.
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Fort Detrick Standard – A look at the Field Identification of Biological Warfare Agents course where students learn to set up, maintain, and operate a deployable laboratory under field conditions.
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San Jose Mercury News – Affymetrix is using its sophisticated gene-chip technology to develop a test that will quickly alert researchers and emergency personnel to the presence of bioterrorist threats, such as anthrax or plague.
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ABC – A silicon chip coated with a thin layer of man-made diamond material, could be the key to sensors that can detect biological terror weapons such as anthrax, smallpox, or ricin.
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Vanderbilt Hustler – How do you detect a disease – such as a genetically engineered one – that no one has ever encountered before? Researchers at Vanderbilt may have an answer???
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