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In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
  • He was working on tree DNA. I'm betting there was a backup disk somewhere.

    where was the back-up DNA located? The back-up petri dishes? The back-up strains? Can you zip petri dishes so they fit into smaller labs like you do bytes of information on servers?