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Published online 13 August 2008 | Nature 454, 813 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454813a
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Anthrax case ignites new forensics field
Biochemical method of tracking microbes hits the limelight.
The messy tragedy surrounding the 2001 US anthrax attacks and the suicide of chief suspect Bruce Ivins has thrown the emergent field of microbial forensics into the spotlight. The forensic techniques proved vital in allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to make its case that the anthrax used in the attacks came from a particular sample in Ivins’s lab.
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