Read the full piece in the Boston Herald. Harvard University biochemistry professor Matthew Meselson said the nerve agent isn’t difficult to make. “A good organic chemist, given access to the right chemicals, the right stocking materials, could do this,” said Meselson, a board member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Read the full […]
National Advisory Board Member Matthew Meselson Quoted in WIRED
Read the full piece in WIRED. “If you have a nerve impulse that tells a muscle to contract, you have to turn off the impulse. Otherwise the muscle will stay contracted,” says Matthew Meselson, a geneticist at Harvard and member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation national advisory board. “The one that primarily […]
National Advisory Board Member Matthew Meselson Quoted in the Washington Post
Read the full article in the Washington Post. VX is not difficult to produce, said Matthew Meselson, a professor of biochemistry at Harvard University and a board member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “A good organic chemist could synthesize VX relatively easily,” he said. “You could get the ingredients and make it […]
Senior Science Fellow Dr. Lynn C. Klotz’s letter to the Boston Globe
Letter in response to the article “CDC backs BU lab for deadliest pathogens” (Metro, Dec. 25). THE ARTICLE “CDC backs BU lab for deadliest pathogens” (Metro, Dec. 25) may have left the the impression that most people in the community are not concerned about the safety of the Biosafety Level 4 lab at National Emerging […]
Senior Science Fellow Dr. Lynn C. Klotz Quoted in the Boston Globe
Read the full piece in the Boston Globe. “Basic research, I think, on some of these very dangerous pathogens has to be done. But the center of an urban environment is not the place to do it,” said another biolab opponent, Lynn C. Klotz, a Gloucester resident and senior science fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based […]