Sentences with phrase «anthrax strains»

The study, under review at the journal mBio and released today on the preprint server bioRxiv, answers one of the many remaining questions about the Soviet Union's clandestine biowarfare program by showing that scientists hadn't tinkered with the anthrax strain to make it more resistant to antibiotics or vaccines.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

But neither the strain nor the physical form of the anthrax is particularly sophisticated, say bioweapons specialists.

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

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

Last week, Tom Ridge, President Bush's Homeland Security adviser, stated that the anthrax sent to Florida, NBC and Senator Tom Daschle were all the same strain.

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.

No one knows what the Russians are working on now, nor what became of the former weapons strains of smallpox, anthrax, and plague.

Contrary to common practice, however, Ivins dumped material from 35 different anthrax cultures into a single flask, thus mixing a number of mutant strains.

Related sites Timothy Read's home page ScienceNOW story about TIGR's plan to sequence additional strains of anthrax Anthrax information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The category would include anthrax, Ebola, Variola major and Variola minor (the two viruses that cause small pox), the Marburg virus, the virus that causes foot and mouth disease, and bacterial strains that produce the botulinum neurotoxin.

In a 1998 Nature paper, they declared that they had revived the anthrax bacterial strain that had spent 8 decades as spores.

Gregory Koblentz, deputy director of the biodefense program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, speculates that the FBI may have used a recent technique based on the identification of Single - Nucleotide Repeat markers in the anthrax genome that allows for differentiating between variants of the same strain.

The unpublished data of biologist Katrina Stone may hold the key to harnessing the lethal bacterium — and to its creation within the desperate world from which biotechnology is born... A fast - paced science and medical thriller, The Death Row Complex introduces a fictitious but all - too - plausible strain of anthrax and the desperate society of bioengineers that created it.

When a genetically engineered strain of anthrax with exceptional potency is released at San Quentin State Prison, Stone quickly becomes both the prime suspect in the terror attack and the FBI's best hope for stopping an imminent national catastrophe.

Trauma surgeon Grace Samuels is deployed to Afghanistan, helping soldiers overcome disease and combat injuries... But a deadly outbreak of anthrax is killing the people she cares most about Deadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by Julie Rowe