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Advances Developed To Detect Bioterrorist Agents Could Find Use In Protecting Food Supplies
May 21, 2002 — Technologies developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers and other scientists to fight bioterrorism could find another use — detecting naturally occurring pathogens in food. ... > full story -
Faster Detection Of Bacteria In Water, Food; Could Be Used To Detect Terrorist Contamination
May 7, 2002 — Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new method that establishes genetic markers for bacteria in water, food, and biological and medical samples. The patented ... > full story -
Prototype Detector Could Identify Anthrax Quickly
March 7, 2002 — Some deadly things don't deserve 15 minutes of FAME, let alone several hours. A prototype handheld detector under development at Sandia National Laboratories can identify the fatty acid methyl ... > full story -
New Sensor Being Designed To Detect, Identify Invisible Agents Faster
February 25, 2002 — Research on a new sensing device able to simultaneously identify more than 3,000 biological materials shows great promise, says one of its developers, Ravi Saraf of Virginia Tech’s chemical ... > full story -
Electrodes And Nanoprobes Signal New DNA Detection Method
February 22, 2002 — An innovative pairing of microelectrodes and gold nanoparticle probes is at the heart of new technology developed at Northwestern University that simplifies DNA detection and could lead to a handheld ... > full story -
Method Quickly Surveys Yeast Genome By Gene Function, Not Sequence
December 27, 2001 — Combining a decade of research advances, scientists have implemented a new method that essentially searches the entire yeast genome in an instant, looking for what the genes do rather than what they ... > full story -
New NIST Test Says "Y" Be Uncertain About DNA Identification
December 10, 2001 — When researchers sought to learn whether President Thomas Jefferson had a child with a slave, they used a “Y chromosome test” that showed the boy was fathered by someone from the ... > full story -
Tracking Path Of Virulent Bacteria Via The Web
December 6, 2001 — Cornell University food science, engineering and computer science students have joined forces to develop a web-based software and a database to track and compare genetic footprints, or ... > full story -
Researchers Distinguish New Type Of Leukemia
December 4, 2001 — Researchers who have studied the activity of thousands of genes in a drug-resistant form of childhood leukemia are now proposing that the disease be called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) because it is ... > full story -
NIST Helps Close Electronic Nooks To Computer-Using Crooks
November 20, 2001 — Classic bits of evidence collected by police at a crime scene include the smoking gun, fingerprints and lipstick on a glass. However, today’s investigators often must search beyond the obvious ... > full story
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