Michael J. Sailor

Mimicking sensory cells in the human nose, Michael Sailor, professor of biochemistry at UC-San Diego, and engineers at a biotech firm Rhevision, Inc (San Diego), have devised “a porous flake of silicon” that can distinguish several toxic chemicals in the air, and they suppose the list of vapors might become several hundred.  Further, they imagine placing such a chip in cell phones that EMT carry, thereby creating a network for monitoring dangerous airborne chemicals from accidents or terrorists.          MORE