National Security Life Sciences – Biosecurity Preparedness

Biosecurity preparedness includes monitoring the environment for potential biothreats—in air, soil, plants, animals, food, wastewater, and people—detecting and mitigating threats when they arise, and predictive modeling to anticipate outcomes. Los Alamos scientists apply their established expertise in environmental surveillance, genomics, bioinformatics, protein engineering, analytics, computational and epidemiological modeling to protect the nation from biological threats.