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Fentanyl or phony? Machine learning algorithm learns to pick out opioid signatures
- February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) aim to answer that question with a machine learning model that can distinguish opioids from other chemicals with an accuracy over 95% in a laboratory setting.
Originally published at Phys.org