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Building a Better Biosensor
With fears of bioterror growing in the US and abroad, researchers have prototyped a number of different biosensors, but will they ever make it into the field?
The Scientist 2004, 18(10):36
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One morning in March 1995, the deadly nerve gas sarin wafted through the Tokyo subway system. Six years later, spores of lethal Bacillus anthracis turned up in the US Postal System (USPS). Then in February, ricin, a toxin derived from castor beans, appeared in the mailroom of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office. The total human toll: 15 dead and more than 6,000 injured.
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