Sentences with phrase «make anthrax»

January 23, 2002 Structure of anthrax toxin offers clues to treatment Researchers describe the 3 - D structure of edema factor, one of the three toxins that make anthrax so deadly.

Or, as Vande Woude puts it, «Conceivably, we could find a drug that would make anthrax as a weapon of destruction as powerful as a water pistol.»

They also discovered that the Taï strain has acquired two plasmids, or circles of DNA, possibly from B. anthracis, encoding most of the genes that make anthrax a formidable killer.

Not exact matches

Due to this severity, the CDC has made tularemia a reportable disease, and like the pathogens causing anthrax and plague, it is considered a bioweapon.

In adults, studies have suggested that the anthrax vaccine is quite safe; it's made with inactivated protein from the anthrax bacteria, much like vaccines that protect against diptheria and tetanus.

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.

Not that it would have; it does not take terrorist mass murder or envelopes full of anthrax to make us forget the ocean.

At least 66 people lost their lives, making it the deadliest human outbreak of inhalation anthrax ever.

The study, under review at the journal mBio and released today on the preprint server bioRxiv, answers one of the many remaining questions about the Soviet Union's clandestine biowarfare program by showing that scientists hadn't tinkered with the anthrax strain to make it more resistant to antibiotics or vaccines.

Molecular biologists at Philadelphia's INB: Biotechnologies are using the vegetable to make vaccines against anthrax, influenza, even plague.

In one case, Pasteur publicly predicted in 1881 that he could protect sheep from anthrax with a vaccine made from his method of weakening the virus with oxygen.

Geison points out that at the time, anthrax was ravaging livestock in France and that there was «big money to be made» from a successful vaccine.

The panel's report, released on 14 June, makes a host of recommendations aimed at reducing the so - called «insider threat» — the possibility that a rogue researcher might use select agents to cause deliberate harm, as U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins allegedly did with anthrax.

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

In response to a question by a committee member, he indicated that the review would help resolve confusion over questions such as the source of silicon detected in the anthrax powder, which in the early days of the investigation was ascribed to silica added to make the spores more easily dispersible.

He has also made significant achievements in the development and application of critically necessary immunizations including anthrax, oral polio, rabies, varicella, and cytomegalovirus.

VXGN has other potentially valuable assets, including a «a state - of - the - art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with a 1,000 - liter bioreactor that can be used to make cell culture or microbial biologic products» and rights to specified percentages of future net sales relating to its anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology.

VXGN has other potentially valuable assets, including a «state - of - the - art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with a 1,000 - liter bioreactor that can be used to make cell culture or microbial biologic products» and rights to specified percentages of future net sales relating to its anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology.

I had an envelope sent to my work address that contained a white powder, obviously it was intended to make we think I had been exposed to anthrax.