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Nature 420, 736 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420736a

Biodefence: Ploughshares into swords

Erika Check

A year ago, Rod Welch's research was well regarded but unlikely to grab the headlines. A microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he worked on toxins produced by the bacterium Escherichia coli.