Research uses living cells to detect explosives, pathogens

The University of Maryland is five years into researching how living cells can be combined with computer chips to make detectors for everything from explosives to pathogens such as anthrax. “The idea of using living cells as sensors has been around for awhile,” says Benjamin Shapiro, an associate...

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