Russian Scientists Developing Ultra-Sensitive Drug-Detection System

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A Russian customs service employee with a dog check parcels for narcotic drugs and potent substances at the Tolmachovo international postal exchange office. (File) - Sputnik International
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Russian scientists are working on an ultra-sensitive detection system for very small doses of drugs and explosives that could rival a dog's acute sense of smell, the project leader at the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects (RFARP) told Sputnik on Monday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The RFARP was established in 2012 to facilitate research and development projects in the field of defense and security. The foundation focuses on three key domains: chemical biology and medicine, physics and technology, information technologies. The foundation is currently working on over 50 projects, and has more than 40 laboratories established in leading research institutes and defense companies of Russia to carry out these projects.

"The bio-hybrid system that is being developed by RFARP will be able to detect the tiniest doses of drugs in the air. We have completed trials of the hardware and software under conditions simulating real-world environment. It has shown that the sensitivity of the bio-hybrid system is comparable to detection dogs' olfactory systems," Fyodor Arseniyev said.

Arseniyev said that sample devices for the automatic discovery and identification of smells of the almost undetectable doses of certain substances have been made based on electrograms from an olfactory analyzer of small laboratory animals.

"We are also working on the hardware and software that would combine advantages of living organisms and technical systems," the project leader said.

According to the scientist, the new technology is compact, easy to use, and can detect and distinguish between all smells like living organisms can. The new system will therefore be effective in detecting dangerous substances in crowded public places.

"This will help to prevent potential illegal actions efficiently, including transporting of the drugs banned in Russia," Arseniyev said.

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