Word: microbiologists
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...Arnold Howitt, Executive Director of the Taubman center for State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Dr. Stephen B. Calderwood, the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School (HMS) were both selected to be on Massachusetts newly created Bioterrorism Coordinating Council...
...government microbiologist, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press the letter sent to Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy contained "billions" of anthrax spores. It generally takes 8,000 to 10,000 spores to infect someone with the inhaled form of the disease...
...thought. The way they were processed tells us volumes about the sophistication behind them and warns us that we need to expand the list of those at risk and the possibilities for what's next. An amateur working in his garage could not craft spores like these, but a microbiologist with a Ph.D. could, working out of a decent lab. Or a novice could buy the spores from a pro or someone with access to stocks in the U.S., Russia, Iraq and possibly elsewhere...
...current attack against resistant strains is multipronged. Some microbiologists are trying to re-engineer the older generation of miracle drugs to get around the mechanisms of resistance. Tetracycline, which kills bacteria by disabling a cellular structure known as the ribosome, is the target of one such effort. Bacteria become resistant to tetracycline, observes Tufts University microbiologist Dr. Stuart Levy, by deploying one protein that serves to shield the ribosome and another that acts as a molecular pump, forcibly ejecting the antibiotic from the cell. Those insights have spawned a line of tetracycline analogs, against which neither the shield...
Slather on the epithets--Food Nazi, Twinkie Taxer, Nutrition Nanny. Michael Jacobson, nemesis of the multibillion-dollar U.S. food industry, relishes the attention. In the three decades since the soft-spoken microbiologist co-founded the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, he has enraged the restaurant industry (fettuccine Alfredo: "a heart attack on a plate"), forced a ban on sulfites at salad bars after a rash of fatal allergic reactions, shamed McDonald's into excising beef tallow from its French fryers, roused moviegoers against artery-clogging coconut oil in popcorn and successfully lobbied for nutrition labels...