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Article: New technology stops airborne pathogens, company says.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 9, 2003
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Byline: Muriel Dobbin; Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. -- A Maryland-based biotechnology company announced Tuesday that it was negotiating with government agencies about a new ventilation system that can be used in hospitals, office buildings and aircraft to neutralize airborne terrorism agents such as anthrax and smallpox.
The technology, called Path-Away, was created at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and developed by Bio-Defense Research Group, headed by Chairman Preston McGee. He said the system could be used for homeland security and as protection against infection for hospitals.
McGee, who worked on vaccines against ...