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Cleaning up subways: Sandia’s 20-year mission to stop anthrax in its tracks
September 18, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you’re like most people, you don’t spend much time thinking about what would happen if anthrax was released into your local subway system.Luckily, Sandia National Laboratories engineer Mark Tucker has spent much of the past 20 years thinking abou…
Categories: Homeland security
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Sandia engineer Mark Tucker with a foam-covered plastic pane.

Sandia honored for fighting Ebola, analyzing emerging biotechnologies
April 20, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The work of Sandia National Laboratories at the intersection of biology and national security, including lifesaving efforts during the 2014 Ebola epidemic, has been recognized by the Department of Energy. On April 11, Dmitri Kusnezov, chief scientist and senior adviser to the secretary of energy, visited Sandia...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research
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Paula Austin outside an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

Sandia veterinarian helps make the world safer through livestock health and biosecurity
July 28, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dr. Melissa Finley’s credibility was on the line as she worked, surrounded by skeptics, to save the life of a dehydrated calf in rural Afghanistan. As a woman and a foreigner she had to earn the trust of the villagers she was trying to help. “They had...
Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering
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