Sentences with phrase «as anthrax»

«In this way, the fabric will be able to block chemical agents such as sulfur mustard (blister agent), GD and VX nerve agents, toxins such as staphylococcal enterotoxin and biological spores such as anthrax.»

Bacillus anthracis bacteria have very efficient machinery for injecting toxic proteins into cells, leading to the potentially deadly infection known as anthrax.

The panel does not rule out the use of behavioral assessment tools to determine if researchers are psychologically fit to work with pathogens such as anthrax.

BioWatch, an alert system designed to be an early detection system for airborne threats such as anthrax and smallpox, was unveiled in 2003 by Pres. George W. Bush.

The new BSL - 3 spaces now under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California would enable the agency to work with agents such as anthrax and plague.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

And the anthrax scare will drive up costs further as the U.S. Postal Service integrates new security measures and equipment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• In a review of Jeanne Guillemin's book American Anthrax (10 September, p 52), the anthrax threat in the US in 2001 should have been referred to as «Amerithrax».

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.»

At two hearings on the Hill today, U.S. lawmakers talked about the need to strengthen the monitoring of research on select agents, deadly microorganisms like anthrax and smallpox that could potentially be used as weapons.

But currently, nothing identifies them beyond taxonomic labels, such as Bacillus anthracis for anthrax.

The latest incident came to light as part of a dispatch from federal officials investigating the problems that led to some 75 federal employees» potential exposure to live anthrax last month.

The panel's report, released on 14 June, makes a host of recommendations aimed at reducing the so - called «insider threat» — the possibility that a rogue researcher might use select agents to cause deliberate harm, as U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins allegedly did with anthrax.

The argument over the US anthrax attacks of 2001 looks set to continue, as politicians begin asking tough questions about the investigation.

US law enforcement agencies last week released their reasons for suspecting Bruce Ivins, a senior anthrax researcher for the US Army, as the long - sought mailer of powdered anthrax to US media outlets and Senators in 2001.

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

Moreover, he believes that investment in technologies such as chip - based methods to rapidly test blood or tissue samples for the presence of anthrax or smallpox would speed the development of related diagnostic tools for regular diseases.

«You might use it to detect the anthrax bacillus or B. cereus; use it as an alternative to antibiotics or as part of a decontaminant,» she said.

Anthrax, for example, can be inactivated via established protocols such as boiling for 10 minutes or treating it with certain chemicals, yet federal employees failed to follow any of the approved protocols to kill the deadly bacteria before sending out anthrax samples in June, potentially endangering scores of federal employees.

Over the past decade, SNPs have shed new light on the genetic risk factors for common illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease — and they've even helped federal investigators hone in on a suspect in the anthrax case (ScienceNOW, 12 August).

In response to a question by a committee member, he indicated that the review would help resolve confusion over questions such as the source of silicon detected in the anthrax powder, which in the early days of the investigation was ascribed to silica added to make the spores more easily dispersible.

In a paper appearing in the journal ChemBioChem, Pentelute and colleagues showed that they could use this disarmed version of the anthrax toxin to deliver two proteins known as antibody mimics, which can kill cancer cells by disrupting specific proteins inside the cells.

Scientists have been working for decades to understand how anthrax toxins get into cells; recently researchers have started exploring the possibility of mimicking this system to deliver small protein molecules as vaccines.

We carry out translational research programmes to develop infectious disease vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics using animal models of tuberculosis, influenza, HIV / AIDS, Clostridium difficile, meningococcal disease, chlamydia, burkholderia and anthrax, as well as emerging viral diseases such as Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever.

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.

Cool rationale over tired melodrama and methodical storytelling as opposed to cheap set pieces are the key factors in Steven Soderbergh's docudrama - thriller Contagion, a disturbingly realistic movie about a relentless viral outbreak that may do for sales of hand sanitizer and surgical masks what anthrax did for duct tape and plastic sheeting in the early... Continue reading →

It will not be any anthrax vaccine payments for VXGN in near future as Emergent BioSolutions lost the government contract in December.

After a first look, it seems to me that all they get is the equivalent amount of OXGN stock as VXGN stock (nothing special there besides the headache of having to do DD on OXGN), incentive payment for negotiating an end to the lease, and incentive milestone payment in connection with the awarding of a government contract to Emergent for the anthrax vaccine.

Lease Amendment I secured space to support the production of its recombinant anthrax vaccine candidate as well as its other programs.

Unfortunately, anthrax is being used as a method of bio-terrorism and cats can be infected, as can most mammals.

But as with this week's anthrax outbreak, if we continue to lock in future warming, we won't be able to say we weren't warned of the consequences.

Last month, parts of Siberia near where the anthrax outbreak is occurring were as much as 18 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) warmer than normal, averaged over the entire month.

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...

It can also release long - buried microbes, as in a 2016 case when a cache of buried reindeer carcasses thawed and caused an outbreak of anthrax.

One Web 3.0 artificial - intelligence system named Cyc is already capable of answering sophisticated, natural - language questions such as, «Which American city would be most vulnerable to an anthrax attack during summer?»

The charge also incorporates other «hoax» offences, such as faux anthrax threats.