[gumbo]

There are *many* bio-labs in the Central New Jersey area. The Waksamn Institute is one of dozens and dozens. Many pharmeceutical and bio-engineering firms, of all sizes.

Yes, no doubt this is true.

My interest in the Waksman Institute perked up when I saw that they actually **mass-produce** microbial "products" for pharmaceutical and research purposes.

IOW, Waksman is a microbe farm. Likely they have exactly the right kinds of equipment for making, oh, a few little items of interest to bio-terrorists.

Not only that, but Waksman is conveniently located right near Route 1 (only 12 miles from the Islamic Society on Route 1) and the NJ Transit Philly-Trenton-Newark-NYC train line.

The train line continues to interest me because Mohammad Pervez, roommate of the "shaved body" hijack suspects, AND roommate of the Greenwood Village possible anthrax suspects, worked at both the Trenton and Newark train stations.

[aristeides]

Seems unlikely to me that a researcher could hide it from his colleagues if he was weaponizing anthrax at a lab like that, but I wonder if such a lab would be useful for storing weaponized anthrax received from a source abroad.

[bvw]

When I was six or seven my Dad took me on a tour of the Waksman Institute. It is a part of Rutgers Unversity and named after the 1952 Nobel prize winning discover of the antibacterial streptomycin, Selman Abraham Waksman, who taught at Rutgers from 1918 to 1958.

Still, there are many other labs in Jersey, equally and even better able make bio-concoctions. I don't understand the zooming in on the Waksman Institite. There's one just three miles north of the West Trenton Post Office. It's now Janssen, a division of J&J. Six or seven years ago it was the Moore Company and they did veterinary medicines and vaccines -- so maybe that included anthrax -- don't know. I think Janssen's product mix is different, human drugs now.