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In the locked office of a Honolulu building, three men are found dead, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies.
In the lush rain forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Here, seven brilliant graduate students recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"For fans of the "Who Was" series, this lively, accessible, and full-color chapter book biography shows how a self-taught scientist was the first to observe the microbial life in and around us. By building his own microscope, Antony van Leeuwenhoek advanced humanity's understanding of our oft-invisible world around us."--
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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This book traces the life of Louis Pasteur, from his early childhood and education through his sources of inspiration and the challenges he faced, his early successes, and the work on pasteurization and vaccination for which he is best known.
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[2019]
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"The French scientist Louis Pasteur made important contributions to chemistry and microbiology. His studies of microbes, which he called germs, helped people to understand the cause of decay in food. Pasteur made important contributions to the alcohol and silk industries, but he is perhaps best known for creating lifesaving vaccines against deadly illnesses, including anthrax, cholera, and rabies. This biography explains Pasteur's many contributions...
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Microbiologist Richard Draman thought he'd answered this question when he walked away from his career to focus on curing a genetic defect that causes his daughter to age at a wildly accelerated rate. Just when Richard and his wife Carly force themselves to recognize that eight-year-old Susie's time is running out, they receive an unexpected gift - startling new research into the fundamental secrets of life that could be the answer to their prayers.When...
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Nick Foley thrillers volume 2
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2017.
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"Former Navy SEAL Nick Foley reluctantly agrees to help investigate when American CIA operative Peter Yu goes missing in China. But when Yu's mutilated body washes up on a beach near Hong Kong, along with dozens of other victims, the case takes a macabre turn. Suddenly Nick finds himself embroiled in another bioterrorism investigation being conducted by China's elite Snow Leopard Counterterrorism Unit and the Chinese CDC, this time involving illegally-harvested...
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[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to understand the importance of microorganisms-both good and bad. Some microorganisms (or germs as Pasteur called them) are helpful, such as those that cause grapes to ferment and become wine. Among his most important discoveries was pasteurization. This process kills harmful bacteria in liquids such as wine and milk, without destroying the liquid. Louis Pasteur focused much of his research on how to prevent...
12) Louis Pasteur
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c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Profiles the French scientist who developed and proved other scientists' theories on the source of infectious diseases before presenting the world's first vaccine.
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2022.
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"Winners of the Paul Ehrlich Prize The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine against COVID-19. Nobody thought it was possible. In mid-January 2020, Ugur Sahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and decades-long research partner, that a vaccine against what would soon be known as COVID-19 could be developed and safely injected into the arms of millions before the end of the year. His confidence was...
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2004
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From Harold Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Twice the Citizen, comes the fourth book in the Nathan Dixon series: They Are Soldiers
They are your neighbor and the person who delivers your mail. They teach your children and build your homes. Every day you see them but do not notice them, that is not until they are needed. Only when disasters strike, whether it be natural or man made do they become something quite different, something...
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1999.
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"Stacy Richardson is a feisty microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams. In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the University's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where a super-secret bio-weapons lab run by Admiral James G. Zoll and known as the Devil's Workshop is located."--BOOK JACKET. "Meanwhile,...
17) Microbiologist
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2024.
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to microbiologists. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
18) Lethal agent
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 18
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2019.
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A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power and privilege, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to begin manufacturing anthrax. Slickly-produced videos chronicling his progress and threatening an imminent attack are posted to the Internet, intensifying the hysteria gripping the U.S. ISIS recruits a Mexican...