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Model Airplane Bio-weapon Sniffers [CNN]
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> X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9809/09/science.weapons.reut/
> "TOY PLANES" COULD SNIFF OUT BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
> LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. defense scientists have developed small
> radio-controlled planes capable of "sniffing out" the presence of
> biological weapons, a British magazine reported on Wednesday.
>
> New Scientist said the aircraft, described by one of their developers
> as "like little toy planes," are designed to fly low into danger zones
> looking for up to four suspected types of bacteria.
>
> As they patrol, air is forced into an on-board sampling chamber,
> creating a vortex in a pool of water, the magazine said.
>
> Every five minutes, water from this chamber is pumped over a sensor
> consisting of four optical fibres, each of which has a probe fixed to
> its core.
>
> Each probe is coated with an antibody to which the spores of a
> particular bacterium will bind if present in the water.
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