Sentences with word «bioterror»

«The benefits of publishing this work do not outweigh the dangers of showing others how to replicate it,» says Thomas Ingelsby of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, which has long warned of bioterror risks.

Made into a permanent programme in 2009, it set out to sequence the genomes of potential bioterror agents, explore new drug technologies and develop «broad - spectrum» therapies that would work against multiple bacterial and viral pathogens — especially haemorrhagic fever viruses such as Ebola and Marburg.

Although Ebola outbreaks are quite rare, the gruesome symptoms — including high fevers, bleeding, and vomiting — and the mortality rate of up to 90 % have captured the world's attention and helped propel the virus onto the list of potential bioterror threats.

«Genetic safety switches could help curb potential bioterror risks.»

For nearly 30 years, La Montagne helped lead NIAID's efforts to combat communicable and sexually transmitted diseases, asthma, allergies, potential bioterror illnesses, and autoimmune disorders.

BioShield aims to speed up basic research and development efforts at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which was allotted a record $ 1.7 billion for bioterror research in the 2003 fiscal year.

Now that polio has been nearly wiped from the face of the earth, a team at the State University of New York at Stony Brook has shown that the virus can easily be assembled from scratch in a laboratory, raising fears of bioterror possibilities.

Scientists there plan to develop vaccines for a range of pathogens — from bioterror threats to sexually transmitted diseases - and ponder policy issues, such as the growing public resistance to vaccination.

Tommy Thompson says BioShield will spur companies to produce products for bioterror defense.

It now looks like being scrapped if new sensing technology can't make it function as conceived (see «Detecting a subway bioterror attack «-RRB-.

One area to watch: how she steers BioWatch — a DHS program to develop and deploy environmental sensors in cities to get early warning of an aerosolized bioterror attack.

Unlike most other bioterror agents, H5N1 can be fought with vaccines and drugs, and can not be targeted to a specific population.

Such a device could have wide - ranging applications, Yeo says, such as miniaturizing bioterror sensors that concentrate harmful bacteria or viruses.

In December 2011, the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity said that experimental details of two studies on the transmissibility of H5N1 flu virus in ferrets should be redacted because of bioterror concerns and fears about virus accidentally escaping the lab.

It's no surprise, then, that anthrax was used in the still - unsolved bioterror mailings that occurred in the weeks after 9/11.

«It's a very smart piece of work,» says Wimmer — although he notes that it could renew concerns about the possibility of producing bioterror viruses from scratch.

«The real bioterror threat comes from nature itself.»

A battle over a mutant bird flu strain has thrown the spotlight on a little - known government body that oversees bioterror - related research.

But while bioterror is being addressed in mainstream science, policy recommendations focused on DIYbio are rarely the subject of serious consideration.

«Whether it's the science to slow global warming; the technology to protect our troops and confront bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; the research to find life - saving cures; or the innovations to remake our industries and create 21st - century jobs — today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation,» he said.

The security and global pandemic concerns of the 21st century have also encouraged the rapid growth of monitoring for infectious disease and bioterror agents.

On the contrary, the only two bioterror attacks in history originated in government laboratories.

Also: updates on rabies recoveries, bioterror risks and the genetic tracking of religious persecution

Situated 1.5 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, the island's 840 acres of wildlife surround a handful of high - security laboratories run by the Department of Homeland Security to combat livestock diseases and bioterror threats.

With global warming, the increasing availability of nuclear weapons to unstable nations, and the growing possibility of bioterror, we won't necessarily have to wait around for an asteroid to make life on Mars suddenly seem appealing.

«It's not going to be bioterror,» he says, «it's going to be «bioerror.

That's the sobering reality uncovered by a New Scientist investigation into the bioterror risks posed by the booming business of gene synthesis.

Experts worry that the virus that causes it, variola, could be used in an act of bioterror or biological warfare.

«I work with the US Department of Defense to help devise countermeasures to bioterror,» says Poland, who is working to improve vaccines for smallpox and anthrax.

In December 2011, the board said that experimental details of the two studies should be redacted from any publications, because of concerns that the information could be used in a bioterror attack.

Genetic tests to detect these microbes could be used by public health researchers trying to find and quarantine outbreaks of bird flu, for example, or by military personnel looking for evidence of a bioterror agent.

We now have a bioterror - industrial complex that rivals the military - industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about.

The exceptions are those who don't understand the science, and the bioterror community.

Questions of bioterror are one thing.

«Natural infectious disease is a far greater threat than bioterror,» says Steve Block of Stanford.

Geisbert: After 9/11, there was a lot of concern that Ebola could be used as a bioterror agent, and the National Institutes of Health put a lot of money into biodefense.

That leaves the public vulnerable to shortages, as happened during the current flu season, and to sudden epidemics or bioterror attacks.

The tricky part, he says, is finding a way to make the system sensitive enough so that it would pick up actual disease - causing agents in the event of a bioterror threat, but specific enough to be able to distinguish them from very closely related bacteria that may exist in the environment but do not lead to human disease.

Others say it is an important piece of the bioterror response puzzle.

The value of the system, even with its false alarms, is that it could give public health officials the first clues of a bioterror attack.

Ancient texts hint that the Hittites sent rams carrying plague to their enemies in what could be the first recorded instance of bioterror

Ubisoft's latest title offers the loot - based questing of Destiny in a realistic setting — modern - day Manhattan after a bioterror attack.

Launched on March 8 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, Ubisoft's newest title places players in the shoes of a covertly trained government operative tasked with restoring law and order to New York City after a bioterror attack.