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Besides serving as a supply depot staging area, chemical-and biological-weapons detection lab, and a medevac point, the liberated air base now has a hospital. Behind the newly erected surgical unit, hospital chief Colonel Harry Warren shows me three large crates full of Iraqi gas masks found on the base; stamped inside the unused masks are the words MADE IN GERMANY...
Hafler directs a lab for Harvard Medical School’s Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
...also other radical Jihadists and "lone wolves" moved to violent action by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Whatever their affiliation, Bureau officials say, U.S. lawmen should be aware that malefactors based in the U.S. could create enough toxins to contaminate a local food source or stage assassinations without elaborate lab equipment and without a risky smuggling operation...
...found only a weak one, called lysozyme, extracted from body fluids. But when he looked at the dishes, Fleming noticed that the bacterial cultures within were dying off. The killer: "mold juice," as he called it, the product of spores that had probably wafted in from a lab downstairs. Fleming determined that the spores were Penicillium notatum and renamed the juice penicillin. However, it was a decade before other scientists took notice of Fleming's work, purified penicillin and turned it into a miracle drug. --By Michael Lemonick
Nobody was paying attention to Tim Berners-Lee and his pet idea. He was a young British scientist at CERN, a high-energy physics lab in Geneva, and he had a radical new way for scientists to share data by linking documents to one another over the Internet. He had kicked around a few different names for it, including the "Infomesh" and the "Information Mine." But he wasn't getting much interest from his bosses. His proposal came back with the words "vague but exciting" written across the cover...