Posted on 02/15/2002 8:14:22 PM PST by gd124
DETECTIVES were last night trying to unravel the circumstances in which a leading university research scientist was found dead at his blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home.
The body of Ian Langford, 40, a senior Fellow at the University of East Anglias Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, was discovered on Monday night by police and ambulancemen. The body was naked from the waist down and partly wedged under a chair. It is understood that doors to the terraced house were locked.
A post-mortem examination failed to establish how Dr Langford, who lived alone in the house in Norwich, died.
Dr Langford began working at the university in 1993 after gaining his PhD in childhood leukaemia and infection following a first-class honours degree in environmental sciences. He worked most recently as a senior researcher assessing risk to the environment.
Professor Kerry Turner, director of the centre, said: We are all very shocked by this appalling news. Ian was without doubt one of Europes leading experts on environmental risk, specialising in links between human health and environmental risk. He was known for his work on the effects on health of bathing water and air pollution, for example. He was one of the most brilliant colleagues I have ever had.
Harvard School of Public Health was saying the same things right after the war!
Re Dr. Wiley,his wife was an Icelander,Dr. Wiley was learning the language, and he and his wife were going to visit Iceland.
Just "co-inky-dinky",I'm sure,that a company called "deCODE" is doing a mammoth DNA thingy there!
When you google the people involved, you see "Pillar" and the same funding start ups, etc!
Perhaps Don Wiley was going to take a new position at deCODE in Iceland?
Perhaps he figured out that deCODE had too many connections to the fellow travelers of Bin Laden?
Maybe my obsessing about Hybridon and Harvard and telemedicine and etc , etc is real?
You're talking about bioregulators, are you not? This is something I have wondered about also. Bioregulators are present in our bodies in small amounts and are the substances that control things such as hormone release, body temp, sleep, mood, consciousness, & emotions. Their potency & effect can now be enhanced by using the latest recombinant-DNA techniques, but one of the key obstacles to weaponization is dissemination & delivery. They would be attractive to terrorists for several reasons. First, unlike chemical agents, they can function without losing their potency. Second, as far as I know, current biological agent detectors are unable to pick them up. And third, unlike other biological agents, the effects are immediate and thus they have a high capacity to disrupt.
Do you know of a detailed list anywhere of the deaths of these deceased scientists? A simple list that includes a detailed look at the topics they were researching?
I do agree this area of research is full of $$ rewards for those who are the most aggressive. It's also full of opportunities for some really evil stuff if it's in the hands of people who have no moral guidelines. The competition must be intense.
As the Genome Race Ends, Another Begins (Thursday, May. 17, 2001; Time.com article)
Now that the human genome has been mapped, the race is on to come up with lucrative cures. Get ready for a new word proteomics to be on every biotech-meister's lips
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