Its compounds are used in photographic film and dilute silver nitrate solutions and other silver compounds are used as disinfectants and microbiocides. While many medical antimicrobial uses of silver have been supplanted by antibiotics, further research into clinical potential continues.
The Sans Institute is located in Bethesda, Maryland. This organization primarily operates in the Educational Research business / industry within the Engineering, Accounting, Research, and Management Services sector.
An earlier version of the Institute's logo, compromised of the human/synth symbolism, their motto and founding date. The Institute was born from the Commonwealth Institute of Technology, or CIT, a renowned university based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Robert House attended it in his youth. During the Great War, a number of CIT personnel survived by taking refuge in the underground level of the campus.