Word: bacterias
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DIED. CHARLES DRAKE, 72, maverick geologist who argued that volcanic eruptions, not the asteroid of a leading 1980s theory, killed off the dinosaurs; of a heart attack; in Norwich, Vt. Drake was an expert in lost worlds; he also led a 1960 expedition that discovered bacteria living 20 ft. beneath the ocean's bottom...
...while officials at the EPA and CRWA acknowledge that the Deer Island plant will be helpful, they are skeptical about the MWPA's proposal to kill remaining bacteria flowing into the river with chlorine...
...individual accomplishments in biology are no less impressive. She spent four years working in the laboratory of Harvard Medical Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Roberto Kolter, studying the survival mechanisms of bacteria when they suffer starvation...
...graduate student in the lab several years ago determined that the surviving bacteria were mutant strains of bacteria, and that the takeover of the bacteria population by the mutant strains was much faster than expected. The finding changed the way scientists in the lab looked at the rate at which evolution occurred, but more work was left to be done...
Next year, she will trade Cambridge, Mass., for Cambridge University in England, where she will continue her work on bacteria in pursuit of an M.Phil. degree. After the year in England, she will return here to attend Harvard Medical School. Ultimately, Gupta says, she may go into academic medicine or work for the Centers for Disease Control or the World Health Organization...