Anthrax Adam Driks, in Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2009 Sporulation is a complex developmental process that takes place over the course of 8 h, in a series of carefully coordinated stages that have been deeply analyzed in B. subtilis and which are substantially the same in B. anthracis (Er...
You can’t get it to coach you to produce a biological or chemical weapon or to endorse your desire to go and throw a brick through your neighbor’s window. You can’t do it— Hang on. Tell me how you’ve achieved that, because that’s usually understood to be an ...
A prototype handheld detector devised by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, N.M., can identify anthrax--specifically the fatty methyl esters of anthrax (FAME)--in less than five minutes. The technique works by preconcentrating airborne particles on a tiny hotplate that acts li...
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Since the World Trade Center tragedy, alarmism about chemical or biological attacks is always in force. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs introduced new procedures to be followed in case suspected anthrax letters are identified (Ministry of Health PROT. 400.3/120.33/4786 of 23/10/2001). ...
Yet there are signs government is rallying - and that it's better prepared should more attacks occur."Everybody's on a huge learning curve, and there's the potential for confusion every which way you look," says Amy Smithson, a chemical and biological weapons expert at the Henry L. ...
Herbal medicine has been used for the treatment of human and livestock ailments since ancient times. Numerous rural and urban communities in Ethiopia practice traditional medicine and transfer the knowledge verbally from generation to generation. Thus, t
The most unusual feature of the anthrax pore is the extremely long 105 Å β-barrel structure. The lumen of the pore, which translocates the catalytic subunit, contains a structure known as a Φ-clamp (Krantz et al., 2005) that ratchets the unfolded protein through the lumen while ...
. . Building on the Pentagon’s anthrax simulation (1999) and the intelligence agency’s ‘Dark Winter’ (2001), Atlantic Storm (2003, 2005), Global Mercury (2003), Schwartz’s ‘Lockstep’ Scenario Document (2010), and MARS (2017), the Gates-funded SPARS scenario war-gamed a ...