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What we now call chemistry began in the cauldrons of mystics and sorcerers seeking not to make a better world through science, but rather to make themselves rich. But among these early magicians, frauds, and con artists were a few far-seeing alchemists who, through rigorous expe…
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"The most ceaselessly creative bioterrorist is still Mother Nature. And her microbial operatives are all around us, thriving in the shadows, ready to pounce when conditions are right. From airborne anthrax to West Nile virus, from the deadly organisms hiding in our food to the n…