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Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson, who laid the foundations for the study of DNA and contributed to the U.S. ban on biological weapons, will receive the Lasker Award for Special Achievement—which comes with a $25,000 award and a statuette of Winged Victory—at a special ceremony in New York...
...fact, says Harvard's Matthew Meselson, a Nobel-prizewinning biologist who did an in-depth study of an anthrax accident at a Soviet bioweapons plant in Sverdlovsk in 1979, "there is no theoretical or experimental basis to believe in any sort of minimum threshold." A dozen or even fewer spores could be sufficient to kill, he suspects, under the right circumstances...
...early 1990s, Meselson and his wife, Boston College biologist Jeanne Guillemin, led a team that investigated the deaths of almost 70 inhabitants around a germ warfare plant in Siberia in 1979. Undergraduates mapped the paths escaped anthrax germs may have traveled, proving that the deaths were indeed caused by the disease and not by bad meat, as Russian authorities claimed...
...Though Meselson has devoted himself to fighting biological weapons, he believes that much of the public concern represents wasted energy...
...Some people in the government and people in the scientific community should be worrying about biological weapons, but not the average man in the street," Meselson says...