Sentences with phrase «produced anthrax»

In this collection, the standard Ames strain is the one the US used when it produced anthrax weapons, a programme which ended in 1969.

Not exact matches

Climate Camp says coal is one of the worst - polluting energy sources, arguing it is «about as clean as an anthrax sandwich», and denies government claims failure to use coal will produce an «energy gap» in Britain.

The anthrax mass - produced for weapons in the US was destroyed after 1969.

But a serendipitous discovery may someday give doctors a new countermeasure against the disease: Researchers report in tomorrow's Science that they have identified a possible mechanism of action for «lethal factor» (LF), a toxic protein produced by the anthrax bacillus that is thought to be one of the principal causes of death in infected individuals.

The gene produces a protein that is embedded in the membrane of cells, and is known to bind anthrax toxins internalizing them into the cell where they exert their action.

The category would include anthrax, Ebola, Variola major and Variola minor (the two viruses that cause small pox), the Marburg virus, the virus that causes foot and mouth disease, and bacterial strains that produce the botulinum neurotoxin.