Sentences with phrase «for ricin»

No antidote exists for ricin poisoning, but a new antibody treatment that's effective in mice could potentially help.

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Markov later died of what is believed to be ricin poisoning, for which there is no antidote.

Whoever wrote the possibly ricin - laced letters to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama may have been motivated by their calls for tighter gun control laws.

(Whoever wrote the possibly ricin - laced letters to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama may have been motivated by their calls for tighter gun control laws.)

A new study presented February 7 at the American Society for Microbiology's Biothreats meeting reveals a ricin antidote that, in mice, works even days after exposure to the toxin.

Many of these toxins, such as botulinum neurotoxin and ricin, act at low concentrations and require highly sensitive assays for detection.

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LONDON — A couple who met on a dating site and began researching how to make homemade explosives and the deadly poison ricin, were jailed on Thursday for...

We've devoted two of this week's prompts to this news story, but given the extraordinary week of news in general — including an explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas, the defeat of gun control legislation and the letters with ricin sent to President Obama and a United States senator from Mississippi — our classroom collaborators have included a new piece in the feature this week: teaching tips for working with sensitive or complex new stories.