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...California at San Diego to design and power small sensors to place on bridges - or on any piece of infrastructure for that matter - that would measure structural problems like strain, deflection, cracks, corrosion or the loosening of bolts, says Chuck Farrar, a civil engineer at the Los Alamos lab. Once the sensors identify a hazardous change in the structure's vitals, such as its dimensions or temperature, they would transmit the information to a computer, which would analyze the data to figure out what went wrong...
Farrar agrees and says the Los Alamos lab has been testing sensors on bridges for the last 10 years, but that the technology is not yet ready for implementation. His team is about a year and a half into a four-year project to test and develop this technology, and it will be tried out on a New Mexico bridge at the end of the month. He expects that after the project is completed, it will still be a year or more before these new sensors for infrastructure become commercially available...
...BFS67 is back - on a farm less than 5 miles (8 km) from the Pirbright research laboratory dedicated to eliminating it. Official confirmation is not expected until tomorrow, but biosecurity experts suspect that the lab - home to a government research center and a company that makes FMD vaccines - was the source of the outbreak...
...eastern Long Island, New York - the only facility in America cleared to research FMD. Two years later, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the facility had become outmoded and "increasingly costly to maintain." Last year, the department said it was considering locations for a new, $450 million disease lab...
...decades, MS researchers have been forced to make their best guess as to what causes the disease, which affects 300,000 Americans, mostly women, between their 20s and 40s. Since 1990, thanks to work done in Hafler's lab, however, they've known that MS sufferers have hyperactive T cells - cells that cruise the body looking for bacteria, viruses and other pathogens - a condition that triggers an inflammatory response and destroys the protective myelin sheath around nerve cells in the central nervous system, which connects the brain and body. This can lead to gradual nerve damage and weakening...