A lyophilizer is a sophisticated machine that is used to dry pathogens and can be used to dry anthrax. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Ivins' particular hot suite, B3, didn't have a freeze-drying machine called a lyophilizer. ❋ Noah Shachtman (2011)
So the affidavit slips the fact that Ivins lacks even the basic tools by including "or other drying device" and states (truly and deceptively) that Ivins had access to "all of which," i.e., the unhelpful lyophilizer but not the essential spray dryer, let alone the specialized silicon and team of colleagues to make it work. ❋ Unknown (2008)
PETER HOTEZ, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: I wouldn't unnecessary make the conclusion that just because he had access to a lyophilizer and used a lyophilizer that that provides a smoking gun that he must be using this for sinister purposes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He tells CNN, there is no way a lyophilizer could have been used to create the fine anthrax spores used in the 2001 letters. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Lyophilizers are not usually used at Ft. Detrick where Bruce Ivins worked, but in the fall of 2001, around the time of the anthrax attacks, Ivins borrowed a lyophilizer to do authorized research, according to a source familiar with the investigation, who did not want to be identified because it is ongoing. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The affidavits allege that not only did Dr. Ivins create and maintain the spore batch used in the mailings, but he also had access to and experience using a lyophilizer. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It also requires access to particular laboratory equipment such as a lyophilizer or other drying device, biological safety cabinet or other containment device, incubator, centrifuge, fermentor, and various protective gear, all of which Dr. Ivins had readily accessible to him through his employment at USAMRIID. ❋ Unknown (2008)
A lyophilizer freeze dries liquid anthrax into a powder. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Ivins had access to a lyophilizer, but not to a spray dryer. ❋ Unknown (2008)
* Dr. Richard Spertzel, a former biodefense scientist who worked with Ivins at the Fort Detrick lab, stated to CNN that there was "no way" a lyophilizer could have created the fine anthrax spores used in the attack letters. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Every time we go into a research center we find a researcher who needs a small lyophilizer or a small centrigugal machine of a certain type, or a certain refrigeration machine. ❋ Unknown (1988)
Lieber said the lab had two pieces of equipment that could have worked faster: a lyophilizer, or freeze dryer, and a smaller device called a "Speed Vac." ❋ Unknown (2011)
He said the lyophilizer at USAMRIID was not in the containment area, and if it had been used to prepare anthrax there would have been a trail of dead animals and people leading investigators to it. ❋ Mike [email protected] (2010)
He replied that the FBI had asked him the same question in October 2001, and he said then and still thinks a lyophilizer would be the simplest way to dry large quantities of spores. ❋ Mike [email protected] (2010)
Heine refrained from talking too much about Ivins in front of the panel, simply telling them that the anthrax in question most likely would have been grown in a 100-liter fermenter and dried with a lyophilizer. ❋ Megan Eckstein (2010)
Guy #1 "The Lyophilizer is in [alarm]."
Guy #2 "[The what]?"
Guy #1 "The Lyophilzer."
Guy #2 "Just [call it] a freeze-dryer, bitch!" ❋ Monspi (2009)
I can't be within 100ft of a [zoo], [I'm a] [registered] Lyophile. ❋ Kustoncupcake (2012)
