LAWRENCE LIVERMORE FINDS UNIQUE ANTHRAX DNA SIGNATURES.

Biotech Business, July, 2002

Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Salt Lake City, with collaborators at Northern Arizona University and Los Alamos National Laboratory, have discovered new DNA regions unique to the bacterium that causes anthrax, potentially providing a way to improve the disease's detection.

The scientists' research, conducted during the past year, were presented during a session at the general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology at the Salt Palace Convention Center.

In her presentation, Livermore biomedical scientist Lyndsay Radnedge discussed how the researchers have found 20 DNA regions or "signatures" unique to Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax.

Currently, most DNA-based tests for B. anthracis are...

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