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Alarm in Brazil After the Theft of Biological Material at a University in São Paulo
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Women face charges of procedural fraud and illegal transport of a genetically modified organism; they own a company that creates transgenic viruses
The arrest of a scientist at the Estadual University of Campinas de Brasil (Unicamp) revealed an additional element in the investigation. The teacher owned, together with her husband, a company capable of producing transgenic viruses, according to public records and publications on social networks. The investigated one is Soledad Palameta Miller, professor at the Faculty of Food Engineering. The Brazilian Federal Police pointed out her as suspec…
Argentine Scientist Arrested for the Mysterious Theft of Dangerous Viruses in a Laboratory in Brazil
The biological material was found in an institute of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in San Pablo, and was later recovered in a raid.Professor Soledad Palameta Miller, a specialist in Virology and Food Bacteriology and coordinator of the affected area, was imprisoned at an early stage of the investigation and was then provisionally released.
Argentine professor Soledad Palameta Miller, coordinator of the Unicamp Food Virology and Biotechnology Laboratory, was arrested and subsequently released on bail. She is charged with theft, procedural fraud and irregular transportation of genetically modified material.
The case of the Rosarina researcher arrested in Brazil for extracting micro-organisms from a high-security laboratory not only opens judicial questions, but also focuses on a universe as strategic as it is competitive: that of scientific research, where access to certain materials can be as valuable as a million-dollar patent. In this ecosystem, every advance can be translated into technological developments, vaccines or products with global imp…
The Federal Justice of Brazil investigates 36-year-old Rosarina scientist Soledad Palameta Miller, after being accused of subtracting genetically modified material and pathogens from the Laboratory of Virology and Applied Biotechnology at the Estadual University of Campinas (Unicamp).The facts and detention The process began on February 13, when university authorities denounced the lack of samples in a Level 3 Biosafety area (BSL-3).After a seri…
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