Sentences with phrase «of anthrax»

1993 — Dr. Martin Hugh - Jones, professor, was part of an American and Russian team of scientists that solved the mystery of a deadly outbreak of anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, Siberia.

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.

A world - renowned expert in microbial forensics, Keim earned the nickname «bioterrorism warrior» in the media for his involvement in identifying strains of anthrax used in terrorist attacks in 1993 and 2001.

But the government's case was largely circumstantial and rested in part on genetic analyses of anthrax spores used in the attacks and in Ivins's laboratory.

• Saved scores of mailroom customers and staff members from imminent danger, by recognizing the signs of a particularly lethal form of anthrax in a received letter.

Mice were inoculated with tumors and treated with one of the following regimens: saline (for use as a placebo), anthrax toxin protein therapy, PC, or a combined regimen of anthrax toxin protein therapy and PC.

The continued emergence of deadly infections such as Ebola, MERS and SARS, as well as the terrorist use of anthrax in 2001 — when spore - laced letters sent to elected officials in Washington and the news media killed five people and sickened 17 others — made government leaders aware of the need for more and better BSL capacity, and they have since provided substantial, sustained funding to support such facilities.

He now says that the most plausible explanation is that the release somehow happened during tests of an anthrax vaccine.

In World War II, the British trials of anthrax infection on Gruinard Island off the coast of Scotland rendered the island uninhabitable for almost 50 years.

But the Russian Academy of Sciences researchers recommended vaccinating Siberian livestock and indefinitely monitoring sites where people have died of anthrax outbreaks in the past.

While they crisscrossed the country, listening to breathless news coverage of anthrax attacks, extremists, and Homeland Security, they faced a much more concrete risk.

It recently took a lead role responding to the presence of anthrax among heroin users.

The camping site on the Chobe river is closed because of the occurrence of anthrax among buffalo, elephants and impalas in the north of Chobe park.

Paul Keim's team at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff has pioneered the genetic analysis of anthrax bacilli.

An advisory board to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this afternoon urged the U.S. government to launch a controversial trial of the anthrax vaccine in children.

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.

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

That fiasco followed news that the CDC had unknowingly sent samples of anthrax from one lab to another.

When the team immersed the setup in a beaker containing the target DNA, the chip - bound DNA yanked the target strands out of solution, filling the space between the electrodes with a patchy lawn of anthrax DNA.

Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, secretes lethal toxin that down - regulates immune functions.

«We have more people dying of the flu in a hospital in any major city on the weekend than died of anthrax during the entirety of the 20th century.

Scientists who mapped the DNA of the New York City subway system have backed off a claim that they discovered traces of anthrax and bubonic plague at several stations, after federal and city public health officials strongly disputed the findings.

And meat - eating could explain what's been a hippo public health mystery: anthrax outbreaks happen naturally among African herbivores, but the pattern of anthrax transmission in hippos has always puzzled researchers.

[Joseph P. Dudley et al, Carnivory in the common hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius: implications for the ecology and epidemiology of anthrax in African landscapes]

And a small batch of anthrax will have undergone many fewer cell divisions than a big batch.

There have been charges over the past week that the sophistication of the anthrax suggests that it was produced with the backing of some government, such as Iraq.

As for the size of the anthrax particles used in the attacks, they were reportedly milled down to a few micrometres, optimal for inhalation.

By adding such a layer to the sound source of an ultrasound machine, he was able to destroy 99.9 percent of the spores in a colony of Bacillus thuringiensis, a relative of anthrax, without the use of any contact medium.

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

The National Institutes of Health had agreed to fund the study, which involved creating an animal model of anthrax infection in baboons, and the university's animal use and care committee had given it the green light.

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

Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic herbivores, but it can also occur in humans when they are exposed to infected animals, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores.

Then there's Iraq, where the government spent $ 80 million over 20 years on bombs that its scientists knew would not deliver most of the anthrax and other toxins they contained, but simply destroy them on impact.

After a seven - year investigation of the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, the FBI was preparing in July to charge a single scientist, Bruce Ivins of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, with the crimes.

One study, published in 2006, estimated that releasing just 1 kilogram of anthrax spores in Washington, D.C., would be enough to infect between 4000 and 50,000 people.

On 2 April 1979, a plume of anthrax spores was accidentally released from a secret bioweapons facility in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk.

Believe it or not, there are actually more cases of anthrax reported each year than diphtheria.»

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

ORD's work also involves developing new approaches to environmental problems, such as ways to quickly screen thousands of potentially dangerous chemicals, new methods to assess contamination from a release of anthrax, and ways to use satellites to detect toxic algae blooms.

Among the latter group, about 46 out of every thousand were hospitalized per year of observation; among those who had received a dose of anthrax vaccine, that number was only 25 — a statistically significant difference.

Its most popular member is ciprofloxacin or Cipro — the antibiotic of anthrax - slaying fame — which doctors prescribe to treat more than 15 kinds of bacterial infections.

An analysis of the genome of the strain in the attacks, published online this week by Science, has yielded new markers for distinguishing the hundreds of anthrax strains, but little in the paper suggests it can help the FBI tie the attack strain to a specific lab.

An outbreak of anthrax which killed 68 people in the Russian town of Sverdlovsk in 1979 was almost certainly caused by a release of the deadly bacteria from a military research laboratory, pathologists revealed this week.

But of the anthrax deception Geison admits: «If I were the US Department of Agriculture, I would have denied him any future funding.»

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.

The first thing the team noticed was that the virus was a voracious predator of the anthrax bacterium, said Holly Ganz, a research scientist at the UC Davis Genome Center and first author on the paper.

In 2006 the same CDC laboratory involved in the recent anthrax troubles had transferred vials of anthrax DNA that were not properly inactivated.

In a paper appearing in the journal ChemBioChem, Pentelute and colleagues showed that they could use this disarmed version of the anthrax toxin to deliver two proteins known as antibody mimics, which can kill cancer cells by disrupting specific proteins inside the cells.

She remained in Sheffield to complete a PhD and short post-doc in the lab of Professor Beining Chen, primarily working to screen and characterise small molecule inhibitors of anthrax toxins as part of a collaboration with the Health Protection Agency at Porton Down.