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Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Killer silk - Making silk fibers that kill anthrax and other microbes in minutes
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 1969-12-31 18:00:00
Description: A simple, inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria — even the armor-coated spores of microbes like anthrax — in minutes, protect homes and other buildings in the event of a terrorist attack with anthrax, scientists are reporting in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
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