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Matthew Meselson says at first he didn’t believe that it was a release of anthrax that caused dozens of deaths in the former Soviet Union city of Sverdlovsk in the spring of 1979. But the Harvard ...

Questions for Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot professor of the natural sciences at Harvard University, who has been outspoken on the topic of bioterrorism and traveled to Sverdlosk, in the ...

In a paper published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), MBL scientists Irina R. Arkhipova and Matthew Meselson provide evidence that suggests bdelloid ...

The U.S. scientist who helped place an international ban on biowarfare says he fears technological advancements will open a "Pandora's box" of unknown diseases and genetic modifications that could ...

Meselson, now Thomas Dudley Cabot professor of the natural sciences at Harvard University, persisted in investigating the largest-known epidemic of deadly human inhalational anthrax. "We had no idea ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Born in 1930 in Denver, Colorado, Matthew Meselson studied at the University of Chicago, Illinois, and at the University of ...