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.

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.

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.

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.

Wired - A look at new techniques being developed to detect diseases.