LIVERMORE, CA — Soon after the anthrax attacks last fall, the call for new weapons to detect and control known deadly biological agents was stepped up dramatically. One research facility, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA, put its research into fast-forward and, as a result, it is close to bringing two detection systems into the production stage.
For the past decade, researchers at Lawrence Livermore have been developing systems that can quickly detect and identify these deadly agents, which include pathogens such as anthrax.