Sandia work shows anthrax letters contained non-weaponized pathogen
Monday, August 25, 2008 - 13:07
in Biology & Nature
They have worked for almost seven years in secret. Most people did not know that the work in Ray Goehner’s materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories was contributing important information to the FBI’s investigation of letters containing bacillus anthracis, the spores that cause the disease anthrax. read more
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