A peek inside a giant germ warehouse.

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  • Author(s): Sharpe, Rochelle
  • Source:
    Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 03/10/98, Vol. 231 Issue 47, pB1. 0p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      AMERICAN Type Culture Collection; CULTURES (Biology)
    • Subject Terms:
      MARYLAND; ROCKVILLE (Md.); UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      Focuses on the American Type Culture Collection, a biological department store that sells and stores specimens critical for research. Sampling of biological material stored for industrial and scientific use; The organization's function as a giant safety-deposit box for big corporations, universities and government labs that need to store substances securely, and secretly; The regulations enacted by US Congress to deter terrorists from obtaining the specimens.