Microbiological Research Establishment

Fig. 2.19 Thiobacillus thio-oxidans (NCIB 8 342). Usually stubby rods, but a few elongated forms can be seen (these are most common in old cultures), x 260 (Crown copyright courtesy Microbiological Research Establishment)...

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Microbiological Research Establishment, Porton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England... 

The British contribution to an understanding of how germ attacks might be carried out was considerable, although Porton Down carried out far fewer such tests. Much of the early American work on how clouds might drift over a city was based on the results of experiments conducted by Porton scientists in which they released smoke clouds in built up areas of Salisbury, Wiltshire, just down the road from the Microbiological Research Establishment, and at Southampton in Hampshire. 

However, between i960 and 1966 scientists from the Porton Down Microbiological Research Establishment took part in a series of tests in which terminal cancer patients were treated with two rare... 

Hambleton, P., Strange, R.E. and Benbough, J.E. (1972). The relationship between bacterial metabolic activity and survival in aerosols. Microbiological Research Establishment Report No. 62. 

Hammond, Carter 2002, pp. 224f the Science Museum, London, has a collection of posters of Porton s open days. I am grateful to Robert Bud for this information. See also IWM, Film and Video Archive, The Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton. 

TNA, DEFE13/1055, Chemical Warfare, Report of the Working Party on the Future of the Microbiological Research Establishment, Porton , October 1970 also DEFE13/846, Chemical Warfare and Biological Warfare—Future of MRE and CDEE , Porton, 29 August 1967 Future of MRE Porton , 14 November 1967. 

TNA, DEFE13/1055, Cheniical Warfare, Working Party on the Future of the Microbiological Research Establishment, Porton , October 1970. 

Division of Clinical Chemistry Karolinska Institute Huddinge University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden and Department of Microbiology Defence Research Establishment Umea, Sweden... 

Carter, G.B., The Microbiological Research Department and Establishment 1946-1979 , TTieASA Newsletter, 1992, pp. 8-10. 

McGahan, D. j. 1987. Survey of microbiological effects in low-level waste disposal to land. Atomic Energy Research Establishment Report AERE R 12477, Harwell, UK. 

Once biological activity has been established (in the laboratory or the field) and once the chemical work has been accomplished, we need to confirm allelopathic activity in the natural environment. To accomplish this end, the effects of soil and microbial flora must be considered. Thus, the disciplines of soil chemistry and microbiology are required. The chapters in this volume deal primarily with the biology and chemistry of phytotoxins isolated from plants however, we hope that these topics will stimulate soil chemists and microbiologists to contribute to solving the problems associated with the study of allelopathy. Thus, the purpose of this volume is not only to bring before the scientific community a representation of research efforts in the area of allelopathy, but also to promote the relationships... 

For many years, Hirst was a member of the Board of Governors of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, where he took a keen interest in the work of the Institute as a whole, and particularly that of Dr. A. E. Oxford and the microbiology department. This led to collaboration on the nature of the reserve carbohydrate synthesized by Cycloposthium and by the holotrich ciliates present in sheep s rumen. Both protozoal polysaccharides were shown to be amylopectin in type. The work was continued with other protozoa, in collaboration with J. F. Ryley, and the presence of starch or amylopectin-type polysaccharides was established in Chilomonas paratnecium, Haematococcus pluvialis, and Tet-raselmis carteriiformis. 

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