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Others in the emergency management field welcome the military with open arms. Billy Wagner, who retired as director of emergency management in the Florida Keys two years ago, says the military is the way to go. "I've always advocated that," Wagner says. "I've thought it was imperative to react to any kind of disasters we had, specifically to have these units ready to be mobilized...
Some Nobel Prizes have gone to discoveries that turned out to be wrong. The 1926 Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Johannes Fibiger for the discovery that roundworms cause cancer (they don't). A year later, psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg won for injecting patients with malaria to treat syphilitic dementia (not a good idea). Past laureates have espoused eugenics, opposed public school, joined the Nazi party and claimed that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job. But the majority of prizes have reflected sound discoveries (X-rays, quantum physics, penicillin) and respected leaders (Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Nelson...
According to Anna Marie Wagner ’11, a team member, their work has immense potential applications in the area of biosensors...
...Imagine if arsenic was found in the water supply,” Wagner said. “By measuring the amount of electricity produced by the modified Shewies, we may be able to directly detect the level of contamination...
...iGEM is a great idea that will revolutionize the way synthetic biology is done because it opens up the playing field for even undergraduates to participate,” Wagner said...