Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2006
...er than apparatus to detect chemical or biological warfare agents. Unlike traditional systems, there is no fi...and cyanobacteria for direct detection of chemical warfare agents. These living sensors are always present and continuously renewed by flowing water. As water ...Tufts' David Walt named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
...of arrays to the detection of explosives, chemical warfare agents, and food and waterborne pathogens. "Our laboratory investigates new ways to measure things," explains Walt. "We create very small arrays containing thousands of features--ten thousand features can easily fit on the head of a pin. Researchers ...Landfills, chemical weapon debris possibly a good match, computer model suggests
...formation available about the behavior of chemical warfare agents to predict how these highly toxic compounds... waste in the landfill. In addition, most chemical warfare agents are rapidly transformed into less toxic forms when they come into contact with water in the l...Chemical warfare ravages mental health of Iranian civilians
Iranian civilians exposed to high-intensity warfare and chemical weapons are experiencing significantl...istress compared to those exposed to low-intensity warfare but not chemical weapons, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the August 2 issue of the...Climate scientists to discuss the chilling consequences of nuclear war
...perts will discuss the long-term effects of atomic warfare at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. While the threat of mutual annihilation by the superpowers has diminished, the risk of nuclear combat has increased, said AGU panelist Stephen Schneider, the Melvin and...Biodesign Institute takes part in $14.4M NIH chemical defense grant
...uction system for countermeasures against chemical warfare agents. His plant of choice is tobacco, because it is a non-food crop. According to his calculations, he can create enough ChEs with the system and scale it up accordingly to supply the entire U.S. in about 100-1000 acres, depending on the protein yi...Monochloramine treatment not as effective in protecting drinking water
...pesticides to disease-causing bacteria to chemical warfare agents. The researchers discovered that not only is monochloramine less reactive than free chlorine against a number of chemical threats, it also is a slightly less efficient disinfectant, requiring a longer time to kill bacterial contaminants. S...Research group gets $7 million to pursue new antibiotic agents
... Metcalfs fascination with the ongoing "biological warfare between bacteria" led him to explore the antimicrobial potential of phosphonates. While phosphonates have found uses in medicine to treat malaria or hypertension this area of research is fairly new, he said. "No one has even made a dedicated sear...Biosensor sniffs out explosives
...the detection of environmental toxins and chemical warfare agents even at sublethal levels," said Dhanasekaran, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Temples Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology. The research team is now perfecting the utility of the biosensor, for example, its respons......lasers for automotive welding, defense sensing and warfare applications. ...