Sentence examples for spore preparation from inspiring English sources

Why not provide enough detail about their procedure to enable other scientists to tell whether they could actually single out Dr. Ivins's spore preparation as the culprit?

When his team analyzed the powder, they found it to be a startlingly refined weapons-grade anthrax spore preparation, the likes of which had never been seen before by personnel at Fort Detrick.

In the summary of its findings, the F.B.I. states that investigators used four different genetic techniques to match the anthrax-laced attack letters to a unique DNA footprint of a single anthrax spore preparation in one flask that had been in Dr. Ivins's custody.

However, in congressional briefings and in a paper published in the August 2006 issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, FBI officials described the powder as a simple spore preparation without additives.

There were no significant differences in the results of any of the experiments performed based upon the spore preparation medium (author's unpublished data).

Groups of female A/J mice were immunized i.p. as described above and challenged 10 days later by intranasal administration of 20 µl of the B. anthracis spore preparation containing the indicated inoculum.

Lawyers for the department's civil division wrote in the July 15 filing that the Army's biodefense center at Fort Detrick, Md., "did not have the specialized equipment in a containment laboratory that would be required to prepare the dried spore preparations that were used in the letters".

Mr. Adamovicz said in his e-mail message: "This is very strong evidence that a process more sophisticated than Bruce Ivins or Usamriid possessed was used in making the spore preparations.

At the news conference they learned why, when an F.B.I. scientist explained that the flask in Dr. Ivins's custody, known as RMR-1029, held the product of 13 production runs of anthrax made at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground and 22 spore preparations made at Fort Detrick.

For each test run, spores (≥7 logs of spores) from each of ten independent spore preparations (five spore preparations for B. anthracis ∆Sterne spores and another five spore preparations for B. thuringiensis Al Hakam) were inoculated on the test substrates and the control substrates.

This is not unusual considering that Ivins' RMR-1029 preparation had been submerged in water and other chemicals since 1997 and was a mixture of 34 different spore preparations.