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title: "Mobile phones to detect airborne toxins"
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#  Mobile phones to detect airborne toxins

 Written by Jesse Garrick on 24 August 2012.

Researchers at the University of California Riverside are developing a BWA/CWA assay that they hope will integrate into a mobile (cell) phone for use by first responders and law enforcement. The research, led by Nosang Myung, is in its eighth year and is sponsored by Nano Engineering Applications, Inc.

For the full story, click [here](https://cbrneworld.com/%5C%22http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/4551%5C%22).

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