At Lawrence Livermore lab in northern California and other national labs, U.S. scientists are hard at work devising new inventions to monitor unlikely but horrific dangers that could stem from future terrorist attacks.One such device is a black box about two-thirds the size of a refrigerator that seeks signs of anthrax, plague, smallpox or other biological attacks. A circular knob on the top acts as the sensor and an antenna transmits information. The inside fuses a chemistry set with a computer brain. If an attack agent is suspected, the device performs a DNA test. “This is something that is in place for the very unlikely but very-high-consequence act,” said John Dzenitis, who helped develop the Autonomous Pathogen Detection System.Full Story
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