Health
AIDS: Fighting the World's Most Dangerous Disease
Los Alamos researchers approaching AIDS cure, developed three vaccines. Read discoveries about HIV evolution and transmission.
http://www.lanl.gov/discover/curing_aids
New 3D Breast Scan Safer, More Accurate, and Comfortable
A safer way to detect early-stage cancer by using sound waves that replace dangerous x-ray technology used for mammograms.
http://www.lanl.gov/discover/better_breast_cancer_screening
Simulation Software Protects Your Community from Bio Threats
The Lab's rock-solid model improves national emergency response, protecting our homeland from rapidly spreading pathogens.
http://www.lanl.gov/discover/pandemic_flu
Early Detection Devices Warn of Flu Outbreaks
Los Alamos researchers create technologies that detect and prevent global outbreaks of deadly pathogens such as influenza.
http://www.lanl.gov/discover/avian_influenza
Bird in the Hand
Tool streamlines acquisition of avian flu field data
This hand-held avian surveillance tool, developed by Torsten Staab of Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering, got the World Health Organization and National Institutes of Health very interested . . .
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