80-year-old 'viable' anthrax strain debunked using advanced genomic sequencing
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 11:02
in Biology & Nature
A strain of anthrax-causing bacterium thought to have been viable 80 years after a thwarted World War I espionage attack, was, in reality, a much younger standard laboratory strain, a team of international researchers has found. The team speculates that the mix-up was due to commonplace laboratory contamination.