lyophilizer

A lyophilizer is a sophisticated machine that is used to dry pathogens and can be used to dry anthrax.

CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2008 2008

Ivins' particular hot suite, B3, didn't have a freeze-drying machine called a lyophilizer.

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Lyophilizers are not usually used at Ft. Detrick where Bruce Ivins worked, but in the fall of 2001, around the time of the anthrax attacks, Ivins borrowed a lyophilizer to do authorized research, according to a source familiar with the investigation, who did not want to be identified because it is ongoing.

CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2008 2008

A lyophilizer freeze dries liquid anthrax into a powder.

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PETER HOTEZ, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: I wouldn't unnecessary make the conclusion that just because he had access to a lyophilizer and used a lyophilizer that that provides a smoking gun that he must be using this for sinister purposes.

CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2008 2008

The affidavits allege that not only did Dr. Ivins create and maintain the spore batch used in the mailings, but he also had access to and experience using a lyophilizer.

CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2008 2008

So the affidavit slips the fact that Ivins lacks even the basic tools by including "or other drying device" and states (truly and deceptively) that Ivins had access to "all of which," i.e., the unhelpful lyophilizer but not the essential spray dryer, let alone the specialized silicon and team of colleagues to make it work.

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It also requires access to particular laboratory equipment such as a lyophilizer or other drying device, biological safety cabinet or other containment device, incubator, centrifuge, fermentor, and various protective gear, all of which Dr. Ivins had readily accessible to him through his employment at USAMRIID.

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Ivins had access to a lyophilizer, but not to a spray dryer.

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* Dr. Richard Spertzel, a former biodefense scientist who worked with Ivins at the Fort Detrick lab, stated to CNN that there was "no way" a lyophilizer could have created the fine anthrax spores used in the attack letters.

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