Sentences with word «ricin»

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Whoever wrote the possibly ricin - laced letters to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama may have been motivated by their calls for tighter gun control laws.

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

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.

Once poisoned, there's no antidote, which is why ricin has been used as a chemical warfare agent.

The International Journal of Toxicology's Final Report on Castor Oil18 confirms this, saying that ricin does not «partition» into the castor oil, which is why castor oil has been safely added to cosmetic products without any effects.

Spinach has a lectin and we can eat spinach just fine without a problem, but there are not so benign lectins like Ricin.

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.

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

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.

No antidote exists for ricin poisoning, but a new antibody treatment that's effective in mice could potentially help.

Jeremy Simpson carried out his Ph.D. work in the laboratory of Mike Lord and Lynne Roberts at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, working on trafficking of protein toxins, in particular ricin, in mammalian cells.

In its first test in people, a vaccine against the toxin ricin appears safe and generates antibodies that are expected to be protective against the potential bioterrorism agent.

The vaccine might be used to protect soldiers and first responders in advance of possible ricin exposure, says immunologist and study leader Ellen S. Vitetta of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Ricin comes from castor seeds and can cause lethal damage to the gut if swallowed or to the lungs if inhaled.

According to the investigators, the couple was planning a bomb or ricin attack over the Christmas holidays.

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

This mammoth task may help the FBI catch criminals who send ricin via the US mail, but may make you feel your personal correspondence is no more protected from government scrutiny on paper than in pixels.

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.

In January a report from the Henry L. Stimson Center policy think tank in Washington, D.C., noted that other items on the government's «select agent» list of potential bioweapons, such as ricin and tetrodotoxin, are also being developed as pharmaceuticals to treat cancer and relieve pain.

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

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

(Whoever wrote the possibly ricin - laced letters to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama may have been motivated by their calls for tighter gun control laws.)

To name a few, there was the Boston Marathon bombing, letters believed to be laced with ricin were sent to President Obama and other officials and the explosion at fertilizer plant in Texas.

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.

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.

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

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.

CNBC's Eamon Javers has the latest details on a ricin - laced letter sent to Sen. Wicker's office.

Markov, a writer, journalist and opponent of Bulgaria's then communist leadership, died on Sept. 11, 1978 after someone fired a ricin - laced pellet into his leg on London's Waterloo Bridge.

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...

Have a «buffet from hell» for people to drink from, with samples of liquid Drain - o, bleach, deadly nightshade, puree of death cap, and maybe some ricin to top it all off, and of course, the people there would make sure that no one tries to fake the consumption of the substances.

Ricin is the lectin from the caster bean, and this is highly toxic.

The lectin of wheat is wheat germ agglutinen which is not as benign as the lectin in spinach, but it is not as destructive as the Ricin from castor beans.

Maybe it's a ricin fruity pebble in your cereal or sending a girl with known fatal std to attempt seduction.

In short, yep, these heavy metals are naturally occurring, but so are ricin and cyanide but that doesn't mean that you should EAT THEM!

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.

Most plants are laced with bitter — and potentially harmful — toxins like cyanide, nicotine, and ricin to deter hungry herbivores.

Ricin, the potent toxin and bioterrorism agent, has no antidote and can cause death within days.

DANGEROUS BEANS The potent toxin ricin is found in castor beans (shown).

A new study presented February 7 at the American Society for Microbiology's Biothreats meeting reveals a ricin antidote that, in mice, works even days after exposure to the toxin.

Ricin has legitimate lab uses in very small quantities.