Sentences with phrase «how anthrax»

To learn more about how the anthrax outbreak itself may have begun, I spoke with Vladimir Romanovsky, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska — Fairbanks who has studied Arctic microbes and is one of the world's foremost experts on Siberian permafrost.

Scientists have been working for decades to understand how anthrax toxins get into cells; recently researchers have started exploring the possibility of mimicking this system to deliver small protein molecules as vaccines.

Until now, however, scientists have been unsure how the anthrax toxin proteins control tumor growth.

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.

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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.

1850s German microbiologist Robert Koch connects a bacterium to a specific disease — bacillus anthracis to the outbreak of anthrax in cattle — and figures out how to grow bacteria in agar cultures in a lab.

He believes that scientists, aware that they entered a new era after 11 September and the anthrax mail attacks, will welcome advice on how to prevent their work from being misused.

Tyson also investigates how microbial forensics helped scientists determine the source of the anthrax mailings of 2001.

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.