Wacka Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 They determined very quickly it was the Ames strain, one that is used for research all over the world and labs in Iraq were known to have purchased it for research. It took until recently to narrow down the specific substrain, probably by sequencing some highly variable regions. The guy slowed them down by trying to say it was others in the building and also giving them other strains when asked for samples from his lab. Also from the article I read, he was also logged going into the lab late and working by himself. Not uncommon for grad students, but strange for a leader of a lab. They push papers and think and rarely do hands on experiment. When I was in grad school, my advisor had to ask us where everything was when he decided to help his daughter with her science fair project (we worked on brewers yeast genetics). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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