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Chemist's solution to biohazard detection
Email: Karen Heyman - klhscience@yahoo.com News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021030-02
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California has developed a device capable of online monitoring of aerosolized spores, which can detect anthrax instantaneously and sound an alert before contamination reaches lethal levels. Dubbed the "anthrax smoke detector," its name metaphorically sums up the device's function, but details of how it works are quite different from a real smoke detector, and from the approach microbiologists' have been using to detect anthrax and other bacteria, according to the device's inventor, JPL chemist Adrian Ponce.
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