BioWarn announces instantaneous detection of avian flu with SmartSense system.

BioWarn, LLC (Gaithersburg, MD), a biotechnology research and product development company, announced that it has successfully demonstrated the capability to instantaneously detect avian influenza (H5N1), also known as bird flu, using its new SmartSense system for the detection of biological substances.

Avian influenza is a viral disease that is spreading through bird populations across Asia, Africa, and Europe. The disease is of great concern because if the virus develops the capacity for human-to-human transmission, it could spread quickly around the globe.

Unlike other diagnostic and sensor technologies that take between 20 minutes and 20 hours to work, a …