Sentences with phrase «anthrax in»

• Saved scores of mailroom customers and staff members from imminent danger, by recognizing the signs of a particularly lethal form of anthrax in a received letter.

As opposed to the bank - breaking suit their lawyers advised them they'd be looking at if they released the film and someone put anthrax in the popcorn...

1993 — Dr. Martin Hugh - Jones, professor, was part of an American and Russian team of scientists that solved the mystery of a deadly outbreak of anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, Siberia.

For an example of how this might work go back to the 9/11 time frame when we had anthrax in the Capitol Building offices.

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

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.

Not exact matches

«I don't think anthrax is scary at all compared to this,» Keim told Science Insider back in November 2011.

Forced evacuation due to toxic contamination (remember the anthrax scare in 2001?).

The company also has vaccines in clinical development for cholera (Vaxchora), anthrax, HIV and hepatitis A.

Early in the war, the highest US officials, including the president and vice president, encouraged the idea that the anthrax attacks were originating with the bin Laden network.

The Houses of Parliament were temporarily closed last night after a powder suspected to be anthrax was found in a main hallway.

Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents.

Climate Camp says coal is one of the worst - polluting energy sources, arguing it is «about as clean as an anthrax sandwich», and denies government claims failure to use coal will produce an «energy gap» in Britain.

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.

Over the course of 22 days, powderized anthrax — a potentially deadly bacterium — was mailed to U.S. Senate offices in Washington, D.C., and to media outlets in New York and Florida.

Researchers could now see the culprits and distinguish between similar diseases such as anthrax, cholera and, yes, bubonic plague, which was isolated in 1894 and named Yersinia pestis in honor of Swiss microbiologist Alexandre Yersin.

He is part of a team cataloging the microbial diversity of U.S. air — in which the scientists have picked up, among other things, very small concentrations of bacteria related to anthrax.

The antibiotic, Epimerox, targets weaknesses in bacteria that have long been exploited by viruses that attack them, known as phage, and has even been shown to protect animals from fatal infection by Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax.

While still far from being declared a true antibiotic drug, the compound teixobactin tested well in lab dishes against Clostridium difficile, a microbe high on doctors» most - wanted list, as well as against bacteria that cause anthrax and tuberculosis.

To be identified as Ames in the studies currently underway, the anthrax must either be the American military strain or one that's very similar.

Ames is more likely than other strains of anthrax to cause disease in animals immunised with the standard US anthrax vaccine, which is now being given to US troops.

In this collection, the standard Ames strain is the one the US used when it produced anthrax weapons, a programme which ended in 196In this collection, the standard Ames strain is the one the US used when it produced anthrax weapons, a programme which ended in 196in 1969.

By adding such a layer to the sound source of an ultrasound machine, he was able to destroy 99.9 percent of the spores in a colony of Bacillus thuringiensis, a relative of anthrax, without the use of any contact medium.

Hunting and deforestation have already brought chimpanzees to the brink of extinction, but «diseases such as anthrax, Ebola, or introduced human respiratory viruses may serve as the final nail in their coffin,» says disease ecologist Tom Gillespie of Emory University in Atlanta.

The anthrax mass - produced for weapons in the US was destroyed after 1969.

In adults, studies have suggested that the anthrax vaccine is quite safe; it's made with inactivated protein from the anthrax bacteria, much like vaccines that protect against diptheria and tetanus.

The standard anthrax vaccine also protects against B. cereus; the team vaccinated about 100 animals in 2012 and 2013 and is now monitoring them.

That's because a trial like this one is almost without precedent in modern medical research: It involves giving children a vaccine that is almost certain not to benefit them, and that might harm them, all to protect other children from an unlikely scenario — a large - scale anthrax attack.

The first, called bio-bar-code assays, relies on nanoparticles designed to attach themselves to specific disease - causing proteins; these will vastly improve a doctor's ability to detect diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's in their early stages and to identify pathogens like anthrax.

Five years later, Leendertz and his team at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin showed that what killed the chimps was an unusual form of anthrax.

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.

«Add to the possible anthrax exposure the delayed notice provided to CDC leadership about avian flu shipments and the discovery of smallpox vials in a cardboard box in an FDA storage room on the NIH campus, and these incidents no longer appear isolated; a dangerous pattern is emerging...,» said Representative Fred Upton (R - MI), chair of the full Energy and Commerce Committee.

The working group began considering a pediatric anthrax trial back in the spring at the government's request.

Back in 2001, Leendertz and his colleagues thought the chimps had died of the familiar form of anthrax, caused by B. anthracis.

ANTHRAX is now a prime suspect in a spate of deaths among heroin addicts in Europe.

Fagbuyi, who served in Iraq as a U.S. Army Major and received the anthrax vaccine himself, says that some military members, first responders, and scientists working with anthrax — many of whom get the vaccine now — have expressed interest in having their children vaccinated, too.

Tests at Britain's lab for dangerous pathogens at Porton Down have found signs of anthrax infection in two Scottish victims.

But psychologically, in the paranoid atmosphere that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks, anthrax was the ultimate contagion.

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

B: We are more aware of the threats since September 11, 2001, and the following month, when anthrax was released in the mail.

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.

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«In principle, one could save people suffering from cutaneous late - stage anthrax infections and maybe treat a variety of other similar diseases,» said Bier.

When envelopes containing the bacterial spores that cause anthrax started arriving in media offices and on Capitol Hill in the fall of 2001, a new era in biological warfare began.

But a serendipitous discovery may someday give doctors a new countermeasure against the disease: Researchers report in tomorrow's Science that they have identified a possible mechanism of action for «lethal factor» (LF), a toxic protein produced by the anthrax bacillus that is thought to be one of the principal causes of death in infected individuals.

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Even so, the identification of an LF target molecule represents the first step toward identifying compounds that can counteract the toxin — which could be a boon if the anthrax bacillus were to be used in a terrorist attack.

The National Institutes of Health had agreed to fund the study, which involved creating an animal model of anthrax infection in baboons, and the university's animal use and care committee had given it the green light.

McKeever flatly denies that the Pickenses had a role in the decision to block the anthrax project.

The implication of U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins in the 2001 anthrax letter attacks came up several times during the Senate hearing.