Word: labs
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...fantastically romantic notion, that thousands of young men and women could descend on a broken place and make it better, not decades from now but right away, hook up the high school Internet lab, send the Army engineers to repair the soccer field, teach the town council about Robert's Rules and all the while watch your back. They debate how much to tell their loved ones back home, who listen to each news report of victories won and lives lost with the acute attention that dread demands. They complain less about the danger than the uncertainty: they are told...
...emphasized that basic infection control and personal responsibility were vital to check the spread of the disease. Maybe they should have taken their own prescription. The latest SARS patient, a medical researcher and lieutenant colonel in Taiwan's army surnamed Chan, apparently contracted the disease in a SARS research lab on Dec. 6. Authorities in Taiwan believe Chan was in a rush to catch a plane to Singapore for a medical conference and hurriedly cleaned up a spill in his lab from a leaky waste bag. Chan told investigators that he thought the spill was safe because it was several...
...didn't. Last week Singapore briefly placed under home quarantine 70 people who might have been exposed to Chan during his four-day visit to the city-state. Passengers sitting near Chan on the two flights were also contacted and quarantined in Hong Kong and the U.S. "Lab accidents do happen," says Dr. Richard Brown, a member of the SARS outbreak team at the WHO's office in Manila. "To some extent it's an occupational hazard." Researchers still don't know what turns some SARS patients into superspreaders, but Asia is lucky that Chan's infection appears...
...lab, such as it is, consists of just three rooms squeezed into a four-story building deep in Yunnan's southwestern town of Mangxi. The building has no elevator, and the external stairwell is bathed in the steamy heat that washes the entire region. Inside, however, in stark contrast to its tropical-outpost surroundings, are a few jewels of the modern microbiology trade--a state-of-the-art freezer for storing blood samples and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), a machine for screening HIV that can identify specific antibodies to the virus...
...call. The firm, based in Emeryville, Calif., is working on a miniature sensor, sometimes called an electronic nose, that detects hazardous chemicals in the environment. If these three firms were real detectives, Alien and Nanomix would be out on the streets doing surveillance, while Imagen would remain in the lab sorting through visual images for clues. Each of these companies plays its own role in the binary gumshoe game...