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Slideshow: Weapons Makers Turn to Medicine

Soviet scientists once tasked with making bioweapons find a rewarding alternative in medicine, with a boost from the U.S. State Department. Kristen Philipkoski reports from San Francisco.
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Vsevolod Kiselev is a former Soviet bioweapons researcher who is now developing a human respiratory papilloma vaccine as head of the biotechnology laboratory at the Research Institute of Molecular Medicine in Moscow.Kristen Philipkoski

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Amir Maksyutov once worked for the Soviet Union's biological warfare program. Now, he's developing vaccines for HIV, flu and malaria at a research labratory in Siberia.

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Vasily Skrypin (left) is CEO and Dmitry Kulish (center) director of strategy for the Bioprocess Group, a private company in Russia that wants to help bring biotechnologies that former bioweapons researchers like Vsevolod Kiselev (right) are now developing with funding from the U.S. government.

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