Research scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab have been working on a detection technology that will be able to detect and identify just about any organism, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa based on their endogeneous nucleic acid sequences. The current version of the Lawrence Livermore Microbial Detection Array (LLMDA), as the device is being called, contains 388,000 probes that together can screen for about 2,000 viruses and 900 bacteria. Moreover, there’s nothing stopping the scientists (except funding, of course) in expanding the device to include all known microorganisms of interest…Read more