Sentences with phrase «for anthrax»

Needle - free skin patch vaccination method for anthrax.

A needle - free skin patchvaccination method for anthrax.

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.

Cipro (ciprofloxacin) was also in the news in the past during the anthrax scare, given its use in treatment for anthrax exposure.

Searching for new clues in its so - far fruitless hunt for the anthrax killer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recruited 32,238 potential new tipsters last week.

Still, the results confirm earlier studies, says John Grabinstein, deputy director for the anthrax immunization program at the U.S. Army Medical Command, and they show there's no reason to halt the program.

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

We have vaccines now for anthrax and antibiotics for anthrax, and we have some stockpiles and a lot of other preparations for foot - and - mouth disease.»

While there, she wanted to repurpose a treatment for anthrax to help clear up staph infections, but wasn't sure how to get money for her idea.

Innate's predecessor company and Collins» company formed Buckler in hopes of developing a treatment for anthrax, but the company never marketed a product or earned a dollar, Grant said.

Not exact matches

The company did not suffer any fallout from the Florida anthrax cases, but Leveen harbors grave concerns for the future of direct mail.

The company also has vaccines in clinical development for cholera (Vaxchora), anthrax, HIV and hepatitis A.

Never thought I would talk about anthrax OR serial killers on my food blog, but hey, there's a first time for everything.

Although much of that money goes to stockpiling vaccines and improving disease surveillance and information exchange, part of it pays for research into improved vaccines and other «countermeasures» against smallpox, anthrax, and botulinum toxin.

«Secondly it shows that this was, would be a viable route for the spread of those other infectious diseases like Bubonic plague and leprosy and anthrax that people had previously suggested might have been spread between East Asia and Europe along the Silk Road.

The anthrax mass - produced for weapons in the US was destroyed after 1969.

«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.

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.

Tests at Britain's lab for dangerous pathogens at Porton Down have found signs of anthrax infection in two Scottish victims.

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

The incidents included inadvertent shipments of live anthrax samples at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and the Department of Defense, and the discovery of old vials of live smallpox on the campus of the National Institutes of Health.

Ebright: The primary risks are accidental release through accidental infection of a lab worker who then infects others — for which there are many precedents — and deliberate release by a disturbed or disgruntled lab worker, for which the 2001 US anthrax mailings provide a precedent.

The second study (cover of the latest issue of PLOS Pathogens) describes new findings by Annabel Guichard and her colleagues that could open the door to much needed intervention for treating late - stage anthrax infection.

Two recent studies led by biologists at the University of California San Diego have set the research groundwork for new avenues to treat influenza and anthrax poisoning.

But a serendipitous discovery may someday give doctors a new countermeasure against the disease: Researchers report in tomorrow's Science that they have identified a possible mechanism of action for «lethal factor» (LF), a toxic protein produced by the anthrax bacillus that is thought to be one of the principal causes of death in infected individuals.

In the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program, mailbox - size machines gather air in major urban areas to be tested for DNA of smallpox, anthrax, plague - causing Yersina pestis, and other pathogens on a federal list.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) began looking into personnel reliability last fall after officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the 2001 anthrax letter attacks had been perpetrated by U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins.

When the waters vanished around Vozrozhdeniya Island, a Soviet germ - warfare facility for open - air testing of anthrax, plague, and smallpox in the southern Aral Sea, U.S. officials in 2000 became so worried that they sent funds and experts to clean up buried stockpiles of the remaining lethal bacteria.

The attacks of 11 September and the anthrax letters have led to significant changes for biologists.

In July, nearly two dozen government laboratories were locked down after more than 80 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were potentially exposed to live anthrax bacteria.

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.

The research is funded by the National Science Foundation through Berg's CAREER award and also by the Army Research Office for its potential to monitor for biological weapons like anthrax.

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

Keim says anthrax terrifies our scientists more than plague because anthrax spores remain indestructible for long periods of time.

Last week, Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, held an unusual press conference to discuss three separate, recent mistakes involving lab safety with smallpox, influenza, and anthrax.

Andrew Hebbeler, assistant director for biological and chemical threats in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), explained at a meeting today of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) that the policy is a response to several recent biosafety lapses at federal labs involving mishandled samples of anthrax, H5N1, and smallpox.

The inspectors, from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), found additional problems, including expired disinfectant, anthrax stored in unsecure freezers and labs, samples stored in Ziploc bags, and a lack of preparation at CDC's clinic for a large anthrax exposure.

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

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.

At a 10 June press conference, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), which was developing an anthrax vaccine for children, announced that six people involved with the research are now taking ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic.

For an example of how this might work go back to the 9/11 time frame when we had anthrax in the Capitol Building offices.

In 1988, Matthew Meselson, a biochemist from Harvard and a prominent campaigner against biological weapons, arranged for Soviet officials to give a lecture tour in the US to present their explanation of how the anthrax outbreak could have been caused by contaminated meat.

Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa called for a «full and thorough vetting» of the claims, noting that «more than a hundred people» had access to the flask of anthrax spores that the FBI says genetically matched the spores used in the attacks.

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.

Related sites Bali Pulendran's laboratory Web site at the Emory Vaccine Center The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's anthrax Web site

So far 2.5 million computers have been enlisted for an omnibus effort to discover promising drug formulations for the treatment of cancer, anthrax, and smallpox.

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.

Following the suicide, the FBI released court documents laying out some of the evidence linking the anthrax spores found in the letters to Ivins's lab at the U.S. Army Medical Institute for Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

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.

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.