Center for Bio-Security Science

The Los Alamos Center for Bio-Security Science (CBSS) works to achieve science and technology breakthroughs in understanding and mitigating threats to national security, public health, and agriculture from natural, emerging, and engineered infectious agents. Created at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2008, the Center focuses its research goals on:

• Developing advanced diagnosis and detection platforms
• Developing pre-symptomatic diagnosis of infection
• Developing vaccines and therapeutics that cannot be defeated by the pathogen
• Developing complete strategies for disease surveillance and management—from threat identification to characterization, detection/diagnosis to countermeasures

News Highlights

• A more complex HIV family tree discovered
• Battling bird flu by the numbers
• Immunodeficiency Virus More Prolific than Previously Thought
• "multipurpose"sampler gun" rapidly collects and tracks radiological, chemical, and biological samples in solid, liquid, or gaseous forms"
• Scientists Model Hepatitis C Virus Detecting explosives with honeybees
• To kill a killer: Targeting Anthrax

Announcements

• CBSS sponsoring 12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY on Infectious Agents: Immunobiology and Countermeasures May 4-7, 2009