Sentences with word «anthrax»

1850s German microbiologist Robert Koch connects a bacterium to a specific disease — bacillus anthracis to the outbreak of anthrax in cattle — and figures out how to grow bacteria in agar cultures in a lab.

Among the latter group, about 46 out of every thousand were hospitalized per year of observation; among those who had received a dose of anthrax vaccine, that number was only 25 — a statistically significant difference.

While they crisscrossed the country, listening to breathless news coverage of anthrax attacks, extremists, and Homeland Security, they faced a much more concrete risk.

The humans infected with anthrax in the Siberia outbreak likely got it from butchering and eating infected animals, Stewart said.

We have anthrax scares, suicide bombers, and religious leaders who outright encourage killing.

But the Russian Academy of Sciences researchers recommended vaccinating Siberian livestock and indefinitely monitoring sites where people have died of anthrax outbreaks in the past.

The process is designed to handle almost any waste product imaginable, including turkey offal, tires, plastic bottles, harbor - dredged muck, old computers, municipal garbage, cornstalks, paper - pulp effluent, infectious medical waste, oil - refinery residues, even biological weapons such as anthrax spores.

She remained in Sheffield to complete a PhD and short post-doc in the lab of Professor Beining Chen, primarily working to screen and characterise small molecule inhibitors of anthrax toxins as part of a collaboration with the Health Protection Agency at Porton Down.

A long - awaited review of the scientific evidence relating to the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks is finally getting off the ground.

For instance, sending out letters with anthrax spores.

In July, nearly two dozen government laboratories were locked down after more than 80 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were potentially exposed to live anthrax bacteria.

Ashcroft's client list includes Nanodetex Corp. in New Mexico, which offers technology that can detect airborne pathogens such as anthrax or liquid explosives such as the type authorities say a group of terror suspects planned to use to blow up passenger jets between Britain and the United States.

Innate's predecessor company and Collins» company formed Buckler in hopes of developing a treatment for anthrax, but the company never marketed a product or earned a dollar, Grant said.

Examining agar plates cultured from anthrax in the letters, investigators spotted mutant colonies and then sequenced them.

Ebright: The primary risks are accidental release through accidental infection of a lab worker who then infects others — for which there are many precedents — and deliberate release by a disturbed or disgruntled lab worker, for which the 2001 US anthrax mailings provide a precedent.

In World War II, the British trials of anthrax infection on Gruinard Island off the coast of Scotland rendered the island uninhabitable for almost 50 years.

This is like anthrax combined with swine flu when it comes to threats.

The scientists initially turned up genes they attributed to the bacteria causing anthrax and bubonic plague.

Paul Keim's team at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff has pioneered the genetic analysis of anthrax bacilli.

The incidents included inadvertent shipments of live anthrax samples at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and the Department of Defense, and the discovery of old vials of live smallpox on the campus of the National Institutes of Health.

«It provides us with a molecular fingerprint,» says Roland Grunow, an expert on anthrax at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin who was not involved in the study.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

An analysis of the genome of the strain in the attacks, published online this week by Science, has yielded new markers for distinguishing the hundreds of anthrax strains, but little in the paper suggests it can help the FBI tie the attack strain to a specific lab.

This is the first anthrax case in Texas this year.

That's because anthrax demands a dead and decomposing host to spread: Once oxygen enters the rotting animal, the bacteria transform into spores.

CDC's internal anthrax investigation concluded that minimizing the number of labs and staff at CDC working with select agents would improve safety.

So sad that we have to worry about anthrax and serial killers these days!

The bacterium Bacillus anthracis, which causes the deadly anthrax disease, produces a toxin made of three proteins that individually are non-toxic.

Molecular biologists at Philadelphia's INB: Biotechnologies are using the vegetable to make vaccines against anthrax, influenza, even plague.

Mann's office was evacuated and quarantined for possible anthrax exposure, until test results showed that the white powder was just cornstarch.

But when anthrax spores from contaminated mail were found in the headquarters of American Media Inc., just a few miles away, Geoff McKee, the principal of the 3,200 - student school here, took immediate action.

Shortly after the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York City, anthrax powder was mailed to several politicians and journalists on the U.S. East Coast; 22 people were infected and five died.

«Scientists decode how anthrax toxin proteins might help treat cancerous tumors: Studies in mice reveal novel treatment regimen.»

The chip could spot anthrax DNA in concentrations several orders of magnitude lower than the minimum for current high - speed detection schemes.

Since the US anthrax attacks of 2001 there has been no bioterrorism anywhere in the world.

Or, as Vande Woude puts it, «Conceivably, we could find a drug that would make anthrax as a weapon of destruction as powerful as a water pistol.»

In places where anthrax is a known threat, cattle get vaccinations, Stewart said.

His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world, paddling down the Orinoco or racing through anthrax — infested Siberia.

With congressional office buildings closed all or most of last week after anthrax spores were detected on Capitol Hill Oct. 15, displaced lawmakers and staff on the education committees did their best to keep working.

This can help pinpoint the exact strain the unknown anthrax came from.

In this collection, the standard Ames strain is the one the US used when it produced anthrax weapons, a programme which ended in 1969.

Biosecurity slip - ups in US labs handling anthrax and smallpox happened because of lack of oversight and failure to follow protocol, says new report

And that's where some worry that the proposed anthrax trial fails to meet ethical standards.

Last week a commotion erupted over a canceled anthrax project at Oklahoma State University (OSU), Stillwater.

With reports that North Korea is testing anthrax loads on ICBMs in addition to its nuclear capabilities, and increasingly frequent joint military exercises between the US and South Korea, cryptocurrency's just another dangerous ingredient in the hunt for a tipping point.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- A year - long audit of the program overseeing U.S. labs that handle lethal pathogens such as Ebola and anthrax found overworked safety inspectors, an absence of independent review and weak biosafety protections that could expose lab workers and the public to harm, a government report will say on Tuesday.