Sentences with phrase «for chemical agents»

Garcia led the interagency Chemical Requirements Working Group for ASPR as an America Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow (2008 - 9), where he developed medical countermeasure requirements to inform the U.S. government on desired medical countermeasures for chemical agents.

That is the hope of Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) project that is part of an initiative at the National Institutes of Health aimed at developing improved antidotes for chemical agents.

Not exact matches

The Organisation for the Protection of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released analysis on Thursday supporting the conclusion of British military scientists that a Russian - made nerve agent was used on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury last month.

The intended payload for North Korea's ICBM program is a nuclear warhead (although chemical weapons like VX nerve agent, which the nation allegedly possesses and has used, are another option).

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international watchdog group, has confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned using a military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

ChemPro can even scale its manufacturing processes to produce single purpose chemical products such as a degreasing agent it created exclusively for a specific machine used by the automotive industry.

The water also doesn't freeze so it can be used as a chemical - free deicing agent for airplanes, which has particular relevance here in Canada.

@Chad: I. Mutations in DNA sequences generally occur through one of two processes: A. Environmental factors: DNA damage from environmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cell division.

If the product description is simply coconut oil there may or may not be some chemical agents used for processing this oil.

It also makes matcha a strong detoxifying agent for the bodies of users, cleansing the body's entire system of toxins and hazardous chemicals or other impurities, leaving the skin glowing and radiantly clean.

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) also reports this about occupations that have a higher level of exposure to hazardous chemicals, «Dermal exposure to hazardous agents can result in a variety of occupational diseases and disorders, including occupational skin diseases (OSD) and systemic toxicity.»

How many people know that the USDA is currently fast tracking approval for a new type of GMO corn developed by DOW chemical that has a component of agent orange in it?

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

On the other hand, it may take days or weeks for a poison or chemical agent to cause symptoms to appear, and may take even longer for the nature of the problem to be realized.

While a bomb goes off once, a chemical agent can remain in a person for a long time after exposure and keep creating new wounds (such as blisters) that require the person to stay hospitalized.

CIA considers the consequences for chemical weapons proliferation now that Iraq has used mustard and nerve agent (Sept. 6, 1984)

We have also notified the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons about Russia's use of this nerve agent.

There's a long list of steps being taken: a new offence of possessing «paedophilic manuals»; a strengthening of sentencing guidelines for computer hacking operations; new powers to seize and destroy chemical substances suspected of being used as cutting agents for illegal drugs.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed the UK's findings that the novichok nerve agent was used.

About 60 U.S. Tomahawk missiles, fired from warships in the Mediterranean Sea, targeted an air base in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that American officials believe Syrian government aircraft launched with a nerve agent, possibly sarin.

The committee had been instrumental in embarrassing the coalition government over its decision to allow the sale of chemicals that could have been used for nerve agent weapons in Syria.

For instance, there were surfactants addressable by temperature, electric or magnetic field, light, and chemical agents.

«The study results elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying disease progression in multiple sclerosis models, providing a basis for future clinical trials to determine safety and efficacy of these chemical agents in humans with demyelinating disorders,» says Patrizia Casaccia, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai and senior author of the study.

For example, one of our first big projects was the exploration of a chemical warfare agent - contaminated site in Mecklenburg - Westpommerania.

Computational design of new enzymes could lead to cheap and efficient degradation strategies for chemical warfare agents that we have not seen yet

University Professor of Applied Physics Stephen Arnold and his team at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have made a discovery that could lead to Star Trek - like biosensor devices capable of flagging the barest presence in blood of a specific virus or antibody, or protein marker for a specific cancer; or sniffing out airborne chemical warfare agents while they are still far below toxic levels.

They already knew of one such compound, a chemical called PD09859 that is one of 60,000 agents the NCI had screened for ability to block growth of human tumor cells.

«This latest finding provides a concise and direct synthesis pathway that, due to the structure of the products delivered, will likely be quite valuable for the discovery and development of therapeutic agents,» says Micalizio, whose work focuses on the design of organic chemical reaction methods and strategies to improve medicine and human health.

As a fellow for two terms (1997 until 1999), Euling assessed the cumulative risk of various toxic agents on development and studied whether certain chemicals in the environment influence the timing of puberty.

We hope to offer the product as a commercial capture agent for separating CO2 from chemical or power station waste streams.»

The lab's analysis of KOD for use as a hemostat, or clotting agent, appears this month in the American Chemical Society journal Biomacromolecules.

Rather than ordinary spot - testing approaches, which look for unnatural ratios between biological constituents in a single sample or for direct chemical evidence of known doping agents, the passport allows investigators to see the big picture — any deviations from the rider's test - established norm that might result from doping, even if the specific drug or tactic remains unknown.

Becker serves as a consultant for Austria - based gas analysis instrument - maker Ionicon Analytik, GmbH, which makes proton transfer reaction — mass spectrometry (PTR — MS) technology that the company claims can distinguish substances having very similar molecular structures as well as correctly identify explosives, chemical warfare agents and substances that could be combined to create a bomb.

«I think it's a very clever idea,» says Dean Rosenthal, a molecular biologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Van der Schans and Rosenthal say they can also conceive of skin tests for other chemical agents, such as phosgene, or industrial pollutants such as ethylene oxide — anything that has a way of getting under the skin.

The Department of Homeland Security could benefit from a reliable, real - time instrument that could scan the atmosphere for toxic agents in order to alert communities to a biological or chemical attack.

He filled out an order form for all the chemicals needed to make sarinthe nerve agent used by the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo in its 1994 and 1995 attacksand two of its relatives, soman and GF.

A further chemical modification in the ProCA32 MRI contrast agent improves the ability for the compound to be retained in blood for a longer period of time, permitting a longer window for imaging and tumor detection.

These treatments also have potential for treating nerve damage resulting from chemical weapons such as sarin, nerve gas and other chemical agents.

Other uses of new chemical technologies include tracers and reporters for geomapping and well connectivity, as well as different types of fluid loss agents that prevent formation damage or keep well integrity, and smart and stimuli - responsive nanoparticles that can be used for improving gelation.

Gene expression - based screen for Parkinson's disease identifies GW8510 as a neuroprotective agent Wimalasena NK, Le VQ, Wimalasena K, Schreiber SL, Karmacharya R. ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

«The fact that the OPCW inspectors were able to obtain blood samples from the Skripals, which were still strongly positive for the nerve agent so long after the two were exposed, indicates that this chemical is slow to break down.

It is currently impractical to monitor most human environments and large areas for the presence of pollutants, explosives, or chemical agents [1].

Periplasmic binding proteins (PBPs), normally involved in bacterial chemotaxis, have been computationally re-designed to produce highly specific and sensitive bio-sensing capacities for substances such as explosives, a chemical agent surrogate, and a metal [2], [3], [4], [5].

Dec. 18, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have developed a «brain - on - a-chip» device aimed at testing and predicting the effects of biological and chemical agents, disease or pharmaceutical drugs on the brain over time without the need for human or animal subjects.

For example, one such agent is the ultraviolet light in sunshine on skin cells, while tobacco - derived chemicals cause mutations in the oesophagus of smokers.

As part of a «Body on a Chip» project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in collaboration with partners from around the country, are developing miniature hearts, livers, blood vessels and lungs that will be used to predict the effects of chemical and biologic agents and used to test the effectiveness of potential treatments.

«There's always a concern for nerve agents and unintentional effects of warfare where troops are in the way of chemical agents,» he said.

European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents (ERINHA) European Infrastructure of Open Screening Platform for Chemical Biology (EU — OPENSCREEN) European Biomedical Imaging Infrastructure (EUROBioImaging)

My team studies new ways to control Australian horticultural pests by applying fundamental knowledge in insect chemical ecology (e.g. to develop new insect attractants), molecular biology (e.g. for new insect diagnostic tools), and insect ecology (e.g. insect biocontrol agents).

Hence our system, with improvements, may allow plants to serve as a simple and inexpensive means to monitor human surroundings for substances such as pollutants, explosives, or chemical agents.