July 9, 2004
U.S. Grand Jury Indicts 2 Professors Over Getting Bacteria for Artwork
A federal grand jury issued indictments last week against an art professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo who used bacteria in his work, and against a genetics professor at the University of Pittsburgh who the prosecutor says illegally supplied the microbes to the art professor.
The four-count indictments charge Steven J. Kurtz, the art professor, and Robert Ferrell, chairman of the human-genetics department at Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health, with
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