Sentences with phrase «on anthrax»

VXGN has other potentially valuable assets, including rights to a portion of future net sales on its anthrax technology and a state - of - the - art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.

In Ekaterinburg, the group met pathologists who had carried out autopsies on the anthrax victims, and had kept their notes, along with microscope slides and tissue samples.

The study may also prove useful if bioterrorists ever get their hands on anthrax.

Not exact matches

Never thought I would talk about anthrax OR serial killers on my food blog, but hey, there's a first time for everything.

Based on highly credible intelligence, UNSCOM [the U.N. weapons inspectors] suspects that Iraq still has biological agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, and clostridium perfringens in sufficient quantity to fill several dozen bombs and ballistic missile warheads, as well as the means to continue manufacturing these deadly agents.

While still far from being declared a true antibiotic drug, the compound teixobactin tested well in lab dishes against Clostridium difficile, a microbe high on doctors» most - wanted list, as well as against bacteria that cause anthrax and tuberculosis.

The first, called bio-bar-code assays, relies on nanoparticles designed to attach themselves to specific disease - causing proteins; these will vastly improve a doctor's ability to detect diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's in their early stages and to identify pathogens like anthrax.

«Add to the possible anthrax exposure the delayed notice provided to CDC leadership about avian flu shipments and the discovery of smallpox vials in a cardboard box in an FDA storage room on the NIH campus, and these incidents no longer appear isolated; a dangerous pattern is emerging...,» said Representative Fred Upton (R - MI), chair of the full Energy and Commerce Committee.

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.

«Recent reports of lapses in biosafety practices involving Federal laboratories» — the mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples by a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta; the accidental contamination of benign poultry flu samples with the deadly H5N1 bird flu at the CDC; and the discovery of old vials of smallpox on the NIH campus in Maryland — «have served to remind us of the importance of constant vigilance over our implementation of biosafety standards,» the notice states.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

The incidents included inadvertent shipments of live anthrax samples at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and the Department of Defense, and the discovery of old vials of live smallpox on the campus of the National Institutes of Health.

When envelopes containing the bacterial spores that cause anthrax started arriving in media offices and on Capitol Hill in the fall of 2001, a new era in biological warfare began.

In the Department of Homeland Security's BioWatch program, mailbox - size machines gather air in major urban areas to be tested for DNA of smallpox, anthrax, plague - causing Yersina pestis, and other pathogens on a federal list.

Although the case never went to trial because of Ivins's suicide on 29 July 2008, FBI officials have claimed that the evidence against him is indisputable and that he carried out the mailings using anthrax stolen from a flask at USAMRIID.

At two hearings on the Hill today, U.S. lawmakers talked about the need to strengthen the monitoring of research on select agents, deadly microorganisms like anthrax and smallpox that could potentially be used as weapons.

The discovery took on greater significance in light of the September 11 attacks, with the ensuing fears of crop duster - borne pathogens and the swift, unexpected deaths from mail - distributed anthrax.

Since the post-9 / 11 anthrax attacks, researchers have become increasingly concerned that someone less savory — a bioterrorist, for example — could misuse critical details in scientific journals, publications that depend on the free flow of ideas.

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.

High on the list: ways to neutralize the anthrax bacterium's fiendish toxin

No one knows what the Russians are working on now, nor what became of the former weapons strains of smallpox, anthrax, and plague.

The money has been spent on things like improving sensors to detect an attack and on building up a stockpile of drugs to combat various pathogens like anthrax.

Fascinated by emerging diseases, he covered outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Shortly after the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York City, anthrax powder was mailed to several politicians and journalists on the U.S. East Coast; 22 people were infected and five died.

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.

«I thought I was going to get to write the definitive article on intestinal anthrax.

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 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.

Five years ago, hard on the heels of 9/11, someone sent anthrax spores through the US mail to journalists and politicians.

Gregory Koblentz, deputy director of the biodefense program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, speculates that the FBI may have used a recent technique based on the identification of Single - Nucleotide Repeat markers in the anthrax genome that allows for differentiating between variants of the same strain.

Over the past decade, SNPs have shed new light on the genetic risk factors for common illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease — and they've even helped federal investigators hone in on a suspect in the anthrax case (ScienceNOW, 12 August).

When a worker engages in a lab procedure, say boiling an anthrax sample, he or she presses a button on the camera to record everything.

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.

With congressional office buildings closed all or most of last week after anthrax spores were detected on Capitol Hill Oct. 15, displaced lawmakers and staff on the education committees did their best to keep working.

Education legislation faced another delay last week when concerns over anthrax contamination on Capitol Hill, which prompted the House to shut down for several days, led lawmakers to abruptly cancel a meeting on the bill.

After a first look, it seems to me that all they get is the equivalent amount of OXGN stock as VXGN stock (nothing special there besides the headache of having to do DD on OXGN), incentive payment for negotiating an end to the lease, and incentive milestone payment in connection with the awarding of a government contract to Emergent for the anthrax vaccine.

The symptoms of anthrax depend on the type of infection and can take anywhere from 1 day to more than 2 months to appear.

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.

I dug in on everything from the risk that gasoline tanker trucks could be turned into weapons (there's renewed resonance to this story given the latest terror alerts) to the anthrax attacks and the apparent role of severe drought in contributing to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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.

«Reporter Tries to Block Daily Fines»: Pete Yost of The Associated Press provides a report that begins, «A former USA Today reporter asked an appeals court Monday to block daily fines levied by a judge who wants her to disclose confidential sources for stories on a scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks.»

With reports that North Korea is testing anthrax loads on ICBMs in addition to its nuclear capabilities, and increasingly frequent joint military exercises between the US and South Korea, cryptocurrency's just another dangerous ingredient in the hunt for a tipping point.