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Caltech chemist's 'smoke alarm' for bioterror
The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, October 25, 2002 | David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor

Posted on 10/25/2002 10:16:38 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Adrian Ponce's job as a Caltech chemist is preventing spacecraft from contaminating distant planets with dangerous microbes from Earth.

But now he has turned his technology to develop what he calls an "anthrax smoke detector" that would quickly signal whenever terrorists have loosed a cloud of potentially deadly bacterial spores into buildings, stadiums or subways.


(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: anthraxscarelist; bioterror; detection

1 posted on 10/25/2002 10:16:39 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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2 posted on 10/25/2002 10:17:58 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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