Tests at Britain's lab for
dangerous pathogens at Porton Down have found signs of anthrax infection in two Scottish victims.
Not exact matches
Since then, Kadouri and others have looked
at the predator's ability to devour
dangerous pathogens in animals.
«We need a constellation of genes, including those for strain markers and toxins, that could be used to identify
dangerous bacteria,» says Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging
Pathogens Institute
at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
► Last Friday, a Sifter pointed to a story about a «massive investigation by USA Today» that «revealed details of hundreds of accidents in recent years
at U.S. high - containment laboratories studying
dangerous pathogens.»
A crescendo of concerns over biosecurity and biosafety expressed
at different forums today may signal that tougher oversight of research involving
dangerous pathogens is around the corner.
We worry about anthrax; they worry about plague,» says Paul Keim, a molecular biologist
at Northern Arizona University who specializes in the DNA fingerprinting of
dangerous pathogens.
At first, Voyles suspected that the
pathogen was growing less
dangerous.
BERLIN — German scientists are scrambling to find the source of an outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), a
dangerous intestinal
pathogen that has sent hundreds of people to the hospital with bloody diarrhea and killed
at least one.
The anthrax scare
at a US lab is unlikely to make anyone ill, but it suggests we should be very careful about scientists creating highly
dangerous pathogens
The specialized cameras, which debuted in a few laboratories
at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the past couple weeks, are affixed to heating equipment used to kill
dangerous substances and to cabinets where
pathogens are kept.
Researchers here are cataloguing what makes cancer cells
dangerous down
at the level of individual genetic changes, how and why
pathogens like malaria evolve to be more (or less) harmful and how humans adapt to those changes.
While it is true that wild cats eat raw meat all the time, the meats that we purchase
at the store are often contaminated with
dangerous pathogens like E. Coli, salmonella, or Listeria.