Research efforts are ongoing to develop specific sensors for their enantiomers.
Departments were set up to develop sensors and monitoring systems.
The Defense Department plans to use the information to develop sensors for detecting enemy missiles.
Researchers are now trying to develop such sensors for the neural prostheses.
SEDD also helps develop sensors and electronic devices which become an important part of modern warfare.
Dr. Rafailovich said researchers would use the ship as a soundstage to develop sensors, scanners and other devices.
This low sensitivity to small molecules makes it hard to develop sensors that can consistently function on small sample sizes.
Itamar Willner developed sensors and methods of electronic and biological interfacing.
Now, the big change in saliva's possibilities came only three years ago, when engineers developed highly sensitive sensors that can detect molecules at minute levels.
Officials of the "Star Wars" anti-missile program ordered the observations to help them develop sensors for tracking and destroying enemy missiles.