Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research, said that in reality the number of imported animals such as mice that are used in research is very small because a pair are bred when they are brought into a lab.

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So far, working with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Diversa has used its patented protein-analysis technology to identify proteins in the organisms that cause plague and anthrax.

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