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DIED. J0E HIN TJIO, 82, biologist who first accurately counted the number of chromosomes (46) in human cells, shaping future study of diseases linked to chromosomal variations; in Gaithersburg...
Warm weather is the culprit behind the birds’ unusually large and noisy presence on campus, according to Douglas Causey, senior vertebrate biologist and ornithologist at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
These days, Langlois' equipment is supplied by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, where the biologist has been working for two years on a piece of equipment that is suddenly commanding great interest: a continuous air-monitoring system that can detect within an hour the presence of any bacteria or virus in a basketball stadium, shopping mall or other indoor place. "It's like a smoke alarm" for harmful biological agents, says Langlois...
...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...
What the President didn't mention: to make all this happen, the University of Wisconsin would have to agree. It was at Wisconsin that biologist James Thomson first isolated embryonic stem cells in 1998. And it is at the affiliated, nonprofit Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation that the patent governing such cells--whether they were isolated at Wisconsin or not--resides. Anyone who wants to work with them may well have to sign an agreement with WiCell Research Institute, which was set up to distribute WARF's stem cells...