How Sleuths Cracked the Anthrax Mystery Via Genetic Fingerprints
By Daniel de Vise Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Inside a Rockville laboratory, a team of scientists labored in round-the-clock shifts to do something many colleagues thought impossible: decode the genetic “fingerprint” of a deadly anthrax sample to help the FBI solve a case. The researchers had been swept into Amerithrax, the massive federal…