Sentences with phrase «toxin ricin»

He also downloaded information on how to make the deadly toxin ricin.

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

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

The seeds contain the toxins ricin and albumin.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Ricin is very poisonous if inhaled, injected, or ingested; it acts as a toxin by inhibiting protein synthesis.

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.

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.