Murex

It was called the Murex—named for a type of seashell, as were all of Samuel’s subsequent tankers.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

It was called the Murex—named for a type of seashell, as were all of Samuel’s subsequent tankers.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Tyrian purple is made from the fresh mucous secretion of a big sea snail that is variously known as Murex brandaris and Haustellum brandaris.

The Purpler Tree and the things you talked about last night. Ann Althouse 2009

Tyrian purple is made from the fresh mucous secretion of a big sea snail that is variously known as Murex brandaris and Haustellum brandaris.

Let the tree be purple. Ann Althouse 2009

It did so by suing the UK firm Murex for patent infringement and preventing Murex from selling its cheaper HCV blood tests.

Harriet A. Washington: Gene Patenting Produces Profits, Not Cures 2010

Murex trunculus and Murex bandaris, two species of sea snails that litter the coasts of Italy and Asia Minor, beat her critters to the punch by a good two thousand years.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Therefore, the silk tradition in Lebanon is more than two thousand years old and goes back to the period of the famous purple dye (ourjouan) extracted from the Murex shell by the Phoenicians of Sidon and Tyre and which was used to produce imperial purple silk.

Magda Abu-Fadil: "Gold and Silk" Revive Past Splendors at Lebanon Museum 2010

Therefore, the silk tradition in Lebanon is more than two thousand years old and goes back to the period of the famous purple dye (ourjouan) extracted from the Murex shell by the Phoenicians of Sidon and Tyre and which was used to produce imperial purple silk.

Magda Abu-Fadil: "Gold and Silk" Revive Past Splendors at Lebanon Museum 2010

It did so by suing the UK firm Murex for patent infringement and preventing Murex from selling its cheaper HCV blood tests.

Harriet A. Washington: Gene Patenting Produces Profits, Not Cures Harriet A. Washington 2010

Brit historian and documentary maker/presenter Michael Woods did an "in search of" film about Murex in the 80's for the Beeb.

Let the tree be purple. Ann Althouse 2009