Sentences with phrase «anthrax dna»

In 2006 the same CDC laboratory involved in the recent anthrax troubles had transferred vials of anthrax DNA that were not properly inactivated.

When the team immersed the setup in a beaker containing the target DNA, the chip - bound DNA yanked the target strands out of solution, filling the space between the electrodes with a patchy lawn of anthrax DNA.

One end of each probe was designed to bind to the free end of the target anthrax DNA; the other end carried a tiny gold particle.

Not exact matches

Scientists who mapped the DNA of the New York City subway system have backed off a claim that they discovered traces of anthrax and bubonic plague at several stations, after federal and city public health officials strongly disputed the findings.

The scientists analysing the anthrax are comparing its DNA with a library of strains collected from all over the world.

They also discovered that the Taï strain has acquired two plasmids, or circles of DNA, possibly from B. anthracis, encoding most of the genes that make anthrax a formidable killer.

In the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program, mailbox - size machines gather air in major urban areas to be tested for DNA of smallpox, anthrax, plague - causing Yersina pestis, and other pathogens on a federal list.

To trace the source of the anthrax, the FBI used «microbial forensics,» a new approach that combines established microbiology techniques with DNA sequencing.

We worry about anthrax; they worry about plague,» says Paul Keim, a molecular biologist at Northern Arizona University who specializes in the DNA fingerprinting of dangerous pathogens.

New technique detects target DNA (here, anthrax) by using it to link fixed strands with «probe» strands attached to current - carrying gold nanoparticles.

Don't be deceived by its tiny stature and minuscule lifespan; this cell can capture bubonic plague in a web of its own DNA, spew out enzymes to digest anthrax and die in a kamikaze blaze of microbe - massacring glory.