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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...
Paula Austin outside an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone.

Sandia Labs anthrax detector takes home national technology transfer award

February 12, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories won the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s (FLC) 2015 Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for a credit-card-size device that can detect bacteria that cause anthrax. BaDx (Bacillus anthracis Diagnostics) works in places with no power, refrigerated storage or laboratory equipment. It requires minimal or no...

Pocket-sized anthrax detector aids global agriculture

April 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper. Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, is commonly found in soils all over the world and can cause serious, and often fatal,...
BaDx, the pocket-sized anthrax assay