Using biochips offers Schabacker and colleagues at Loyola University in Chicago, the possibility of identifying “signature” of biological agents that can be used for acts of bioterrorism, especially the bacteria that causes Anthrax (anthrax), Bacillus anthracis.

Although some scientists have used DNA analysis to identify particular strains of Anthrax bacteria, biochips are able to help decisively to scientists and government officials to find out how they have been cultivated Anthrax bacteria tested, thereby reducing the amount of potential suspects.

This project, which began less than two years, serves as an example of the burgeoning field of microbial forensics.

At present, microbial forensics is one of the most important counterterrorism, and one of the most critical tools for dealing with bioterrorism. Proteomic analysis of the project the researchers are able to perform with biochips dataset provides a new and different biological agents that could be achieved earlier. The technique can give the experts a “fingerprint” full body, an information specialist can then be used to identify more precisely the origin of that body.

Originally developed as a diagnostic tool, the biochip is a matrix of 1 cm by 1 cm containing between several dozen and several hundred “dots,” or small drops. Each of these drops contains one nucleic acid or protein antibody only to be associated with a particular reagent.

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