Sentences with word «bioterrorist»

Yet despite the mailings» status as the most sophisticated and deadly series of bioterrorist attacks in the United States to date, just five people were killed and another 17 sickened.

Last December, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) concluded that publications about the work — which for the first time made the deadly bird flu virus transmissible in mammals — should redact key details to reduce the chances of bioterrorists using the information.

However, some scientists are concerned that synthetic organisms could potentially escape into the environment or be used by bioterrorists.

Anthrax is a favorite weapon for bioterrorists as well.

Scientists have the «social responsibility to make sure that this information is not used by those who can do harm,» such as bioterrorists or countries with ill - equipped safety laboratories, Frankel says.

The study may also prove useful if bioterrorists ever get their hands on anthrax.

Ever since, biological scientists have debated whether, one day, the need to keep sensitive information from aspiring bioterrorists would force them to impose new limits on the academic openness they had long taken for granted.

Play as either Leon S. Kennedy or Helena Harper and further explore the dark corridors and moonlit grounds of Ivy University, swarming with the victims of the latest bioterrorist attack.

But many governments have stockpiled vaccine in case bioterrorists get their hands on a potential hidden cache of the virus.

For example, bioterrorists aim many agents at the mucosal surfaces, including the lungs and gastrointestinal tract.

«Nature is the ultimate bioterrorist and we need to do all we can to stay one step ahead» by conducting research «to help us better recognize and countermand these strains.»

The advantages of keeping scientific details from putative bioterrorists, he said, must be weighed against the advantages of working on vaccines, which «can be done more rapidly in an open environment».

So as not to give bioterrorists any ideas, the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) initially recommended not publishing the key details in Fouchier's paper.

Says Pollack: «Mother Nature is by far the worst bioterrorist out there.»

This relatively unsophisticated attack confirmed fears, already growing in the US, that with a bit more effort a determined bioterrorist could spread disease and mayhem across the nation.

Brucella melitensis is considered a potential agent for biological warfare by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention and rated «B» on the list of potential bioterrorist weapons.

MIT's Oye, for instance, raises the «most extreme scenario» of bioterrorists altering the genomes of disease - causing organisms to make them more lethal or more infectious, and using gene drives to spread that trait throughout a population.

After surviving the mansion, the world had need for experienced agents that could battle bioterrorists, so Jill joined her S.T.A.R.S. partner Chris Redfield in the B.S.A.A..

1) Fear - mongering that they spread disease — like bioterrorists and can give you the Plague (the CDC notes that there are about 5 documented cases of the Plague in the US every year — so this is an extremely minor threat).

The plot follows events on board the ship SS Queen Zenobia, one year after a huge bioterrorist attack on the floating city Terragrigia in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.

A deadly bioterrorist attack in China has Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield, and Jake Muller all fighting for their lives.

Hours after scientist and artist Steve Kurtz called 911 to report his wife's death, medics suspicious of his work reported him to the FBI, who detained Kurtz as a suspected bioterrorist.

The Claim: A lab - concocted strain of ferret flu could become a doomsday weapon or bioterrorist threat.

A major scientific society has sent a letter to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) requesting a meeting of biomedical publishers to discuss whether and how to publish research that might be co-opted by bioterrorists.

Although the manufacture of smallpox vaccine for the general public was suspended in 1982, production resumed when security analysts realized that smallpox would be a choice weapon for bioterrorists.

It has become the victim of the latest bioterrorist attack and is now swarming with infected people.

Also on the table: Should experiments that could help aspiring bioterrorists be more tightly regulated — and if so, how?

Biologists and engineers are devising early - warning systems that can detect a bioterrorist attack in time to blunt its effects

Ellington brushes aside those concerns, noting that the difficulty of engineering cells is beyond the scope of all would - be bioterrorists.

Security experts, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, worry that CRISPR makes things easier for would - be bioterrorists.

Armed with a fake email address, a would - be bioterrorist could probably order the building blocks of a deadly biological weapon online, and receive them by post within weeks.

Esvelt says he also attended last month's JASON meeting in San Diego, California, where he outlined how would - be bioterrorists might weaponize gene drives.

Critics say that making the methodology or gene sequences widely available amounts to giving would - be bioterrorists an easy recipe.

US authorities — because the US National Agency for Allergy and Infectious Disease funded the work — sounded the alarm over fears that the Rotterdam work, especially, would provide a weapon to bioterrorists.

The NSABB worried that bioterrorists would use the information to make dangerous, transmissible H5N1 — or that other, less careful researchers would repeat the work and let the virus get away.

In addition, the researchers discount the possibility of a bioterrorist making the virus.

If a bioterrorist is suspected to have infected the U.S. with a livestock virus such as African swine fever, rinderpest, or foot - and - mouth disease (FMD) all highly contagious and potentially devastatingthe FBI will send forensic scientists to Plum Island.

University researchers who work with dangerous pathogens should keep an eye on each other and report any signs of suspicious behavior to lab managers, says a panel of life scientists that was asked by the U.S. government to think of ways to tackle the threat of lab insiders carrying out a bioterrorist attack.

A congressionally appointed commission has been grabbing headlines with its message that the threat of a bioterrorist attack outweighs the risk of a nuclear weapons attack.

Officials don't know yet how the epidemic originated, but they downplayed the potential that it represents a bioterrorist attack.

Since the post-9 / 11 anthrax attacks, researchers have become increasingly concerned that someone less savory — a bioterrorist, for example — could misuse critical details in scientific journals, publications that depend on the free flow of ideas.

In 2001, for instance, researchers accidentally discovered how to make a more virulent mousepox virus (Science, 26 January 2001, p. 585), a finding that could be abused by bioterrorists.

But the bioterrorist threat is another matter.

Those rules will include a voluntary program for companies that make DNA to scan orders for any sequences that could belong to small pox or other select agents that could be used by bioterrorists.

A bioterrorist attack with anthrax could render an area infective for generations.

The achievement, while celebrated as a major step forward in synthetic biology, could also make it easier for bioterrorists to make dangerous pathogens.

A virologist at the University of Tokyo and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Kawaoka led one of the studies that has sparked alarm around the world that these lab creations might escape or give ideas to bioterrorists.

At the same time, «I don't think science should be putting out recipes» for bioterrorists, Webster says.