Sentences with phrase «warfare agents at»
The Army tested chemical - and biological - warfare agents at the site during the height of the Cold War.
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University Professor of Applied Physics Stephen Arnold and his team at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have made a discovery that could lead to Star Trek - like biosensor devices capable of flagging the barest presence in blood of a specific virus or antibody, or protein marker for a specific cancer; or sniffing out airborne chemical warfare agents while they are still far below toxic levels.
«These are the most toxic chemical warfare agents ever developed,» says Jonathan Newmark, a neurologist in Burke, Virginia, who has helped develop countermeasures against such weapons at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) in Edgewood, Maryland, and other agencies.
At the extreme, lectins are potent enough to be a biological warfare agent as in the case of ricin.