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Using biomimicry to detect outbreaks faster
April 9, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Our immune systems are made up of billions of white blood cells searching for signs of infections and foreign invaders, ready to raise the alarm. Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists Pat Finley and Drew Levin have been working to improve the U.S. biosurveillance system that alerts authorities...
Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Computing
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Pat Finley, Drew Levin, and Melanie Moses sit in an emergency room, looking at a laptop.

Blowing bubbles to catch carbon dioxide
September 1, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have created a powerful new way to capture carbon dioxide from coal- and gas-fired electricity plants with a bubble-like membrane that harnesses the power of nature to reduce CO2 emissions efficiently. CO2 is a primary greenhouse gas,...
Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Materials Science
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Susan Rempe with a soap bubble

Sandia storing information securely in DNA
July 11, 2016 • Sandia researchers explore a biologically inspired information storage system ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider generate 15 million gigabytes of data per year. That is a lot of digital data to inscribe on hard drives or beam up to the “cloud.” George Bachand, a Sandia National Laboratories...
Categories: Biology, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering
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Marlene and George Bachand show off their new method for encrypting and storing sensitive information in DNA