Lab Fights Microscopic Enemies

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore lab have launched two new research centers that are concentrating powerful instruments and the science of the vanishingly small on chem-bio defense and biomedicine. Chiefs of the centers will pull in teams of biologists, physicists, engineers and chemists and put them to work on projects funded by defense and health agencies. A Biosecurity and Nanosciences Laboratory will explore new devices for detecting biological threats.