article_snippet: Professor Ralph Mitchell, a biologist at Harvard who led the work, said: 'Professor Ralph Mitchell, a biologist at Harvard who led the work knew An estimated 282 mummies were degrading
article_snippet: With many diseases we encounter, the microbe is in Professor Ralph Mitchell, a biologist at Harvard who led the work body to begin with, but when the environment changes the microbe becomes an opportunist.'
article_snippet: Professor Mitchell and his colleagues are now keen to find ways to help protect the mummies still preserved out in the desert.
highlights_snippet: Scientists now hope to protect some mummies from suffering further damage .