Sentences with phrase «of ricin»

All parts of the castor bean plant are toxic, but the seeds contain the highest concentration of ricin, one of the most poisonous compounds known.

This is due to the levels of ricin found within the bean.

At the extreme, lectins are potent enough to be a biological warfare agent as in the case of ricin.

* One bottle of ricin of unknown quantity, but labeled 5 grams.

2.5 Million in one spot, what a great place to spray a little Eboli or a lot of Ricin, although I do Like the 10 Megaton idea also...

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CNBC's Eamon Javers has the latest details on a ricin - tainted envelope sent to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R - MI).

A ricin - tainted envelope was sent to the Capitol Hill office of Sen. Roger Wicker, (R - MI), reports CNBC's Eamon Javers.

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

Some agglutinins, such as ricin (from castor beans), is so toxic that as little as one milligram — the size of a grain of rice — inhaled or injected is deadly.

The man concerned was acquitted last year of any involvement in the «ricin plot» to distribute the deadly poison in north London and released from custody.

As far from a chemistry graduate as one could get, Davison - an unemployed lorry driver and part - time pub DJ - had produced enough of the chemical agent «ricin'to kill at least nine.

Georgi Markov was assassinated in London using ricin in 1978 (the height of the cold war).

The FBI and Vermont police were investigating the discovery of the deadly toxin ricin found at a Vermont retirement community.

The GAO audited laboratory safety oversight following errors that could have exposed dozens of people to live anthrax bacteria and the deadly toxin ricin.

As recently as last November, the Department of Homeland Security found a private lab inadvertently shipped ricin - a lethal poison - to one of its training centers on multiple occasions in 2011.

Doctors need some way to deal with ricin poisoning, said Patrick Cherubin, a cell biologist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

The samples included two vials of plague bacteria (Yersinia pestis); two vials of Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the tropical disease melioidosis; three vials of tularemia bacteria; two vials of botulinum toxin; and a sample of deadly ricin in an old collection dating to 1914.

When the team tried to clone the heavy chain - only antibodies from three llamas, they could not get a set that would bind well to the several biothreats they desired to test — among them ricin, cholera toxin and vaccinia (a surrogate of smallpox virus).

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are developing a medical instrument that will be able to quickly detect a suite of biothreat agents, including anthrax, ricin, botulinum, shiga and SEB toxin.

With the pressure off, says Ho, he «accidentally» solved another difficult problem: a ricin toxin bound to one of Schramm's inhibitors.

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

Stechmann B, Bai SK, Gobbo E, Lopez R, Merer G, Pinchard S, Panigai L, Tenza D, Raposo G, Beaumelle B, Sauvaire D, Gillet * D, Johannes * L, Barbier J (2010) Inhibition of retrograde transport protects mice from lethal ricin challenges.

Castor oil, however, does not contain ricin, as the process of oil extraction heats up the protein to such an extent as to denature and inactivate it.

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It also prompts CIA Agent Lacey (Lizzy Caplan) to pitch the assassination plan using a strip of slow, lethal ricin to be transferred in a pre-interview handshake.

Hearing this, the CIA persuades the duo to do their patriotic duty and dispose of Kim (Randall Park) with a ricin - laced handshake.

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.

Ricinus communis holds ricin, a highly toxic protein that can cause: severe abdominal pain, drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive thirst, faintness and loss of appetite.

The seeds, leaves and steam of the plant contain ricin (remember the poison attack on Japanese subway) and may produce abdominal pain, drooling, vomiting diarrhea, excessive thirst, weakness and appetite loss.

The ability to consider the case details from the view of the suggested intention, (e.g. by ascertaining the optimum ways of administering toxins such as ricin or nerve agents, or the most effective ways of concealing polonium), is also a critical skill and that is highly related to the experience of operating a forensic laboratory, where the possibility of every conceivable toxin or explosive must be considered to ensure that traces are not missed.

In both the recent shootings at Santa Monica College, and ricin filled letters sent to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, unaddressed rage about divorce was at the heart of both incidents.