Porton in a sentence

China's pharmaceutical company Porton has opened new research and development laboratories for small molecules in Mengeš, a town north of Ljubljana.

Not much is known about its inner workings, however, and Ministry of Defence scientists, engineers and technicians have now begun to pore through its remains at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire.

Lexi was found dead on January 15 last year at Porton's flat in Rugby.

Contrary to the FCO tweet, the ambassador had not stated that Porton Down had itself “made clear” that the Salisbury poison had been “produced in Russia”.

Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Porton Down defence laboratory, told Sky News that analysts had identified it as military-grade Novichok, but they had not proved it was made in Russia.

However, scientists from the UK-based Porton Down defense research laboratory could not definitively establish that the nerve agent was made in Russia.

It again proved too toxic to be used in agriculture and it was passed to the UK’s Porton Down Chemical Weapons Research Centre, and subsequently to the US government, when the UK renounced chemical weapons.

It also explains why on Saturday, the Russian Embassy in the UK once again demanded that London produce the complete UK info on “Skripal’s Case” and disclose details on a program to produce weapons-grade toxic substances in Porton Down.

Porton Down chief executive Gary Aitkenhead told the BBC: "We have got the highest levels of controls, of security around the work that we do here.

They will meet officials from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, where the chemical was identified as the Soviet-designed Novichok.

Biological warfare testing main Gruinard was the site of a biological warfare test by British military scientists from Porton Down in 1942, during the Second World War.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, British postwar chemical weapons research was based at the Porton Down facility.

The same day a sealed package of soil was left outside the military research facility at Porton Down ; tests revealed that it contained anthrax bacilli.

The toxicity did not go unnoticed, and samples of it were sent to the research facility at Porton Down for evaluation.

The toxicity did not go unnoticed and some of the more toxic materials had in fact been sent to the British Armed Forces research facility at Porton Down for evaluation.

Visits to the island were prohibited, except periodic checks by Porton Down personnel to determine the level of contamination.