More news has come in from the Desert Research Center in Egypt, which is spread over several sites. We knew the genebank in North Sinai had been looted, while the national genebank, near Giza, seemed to be safe. Now we learn that a site at Matrya, on the outskirts of Cairo, has been robbed, with 300-400 computers and other equipment loaded into private cars between 1 and 5 in the morning. At least, that’s what I get from the message, which seems to have been through a combination of machine and human translation. Having but two words of Arabic, I can’t complain. However, if anyone out there more fluent than me would like to get in contact and prepare a more readable account, we’ll be happy to host it. Anonymously if need be.