Scientists seek answers on what activates deadly anthrax spores
...ection that is back in the news. "A key aspect of anthrax spore biology concerns the germination process thr...ortance of such a germination control mechanism in anthrax is clear, as spore germination and outgrowth are fundamental to proliferation." Claiborne, co-direc...Study Models Impact Of Anthrax Vaccine
...pidly distributing antibiotics to peopleexposed to anthrax spores during a bioterrorist attack, could byitself, prevent about 70 percent of anthrax infections from occurring,according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ofPublic ...Antibodies from plants protect against anthrax
...ants, human antibodies that could be used to treat anthrax exposure. They report their findings today at the ...d tested for their ability to protect mice against anthrax infection. The plant-produced antibodies were just as effective as the antibodies produced by human ...Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers
... "The bull's-eye could tell you: This is where the anthrax is," said Weiss. The researchers published their results in the April 28 issue of Nature. In addition to Weiss and Basu, authors of the paper are postdoctoral researcher Yoram Gerchman at Princeton and professor of chemical engineering Frances Arnol......ave revealed details of a key step in the entry of anthrax toxin into human cells. The work, which grew out of an ongoing effort to produce a better anthrax therapeutic, shows that the protective antigen component of the bacterial toxin plays an active role...Medical College lands $8.1M grant to detect bird flu, bioterror agents
...e greatest potential threat. These agents include anthrax , botulinum toxin , and a group of RNA viruses that cause hemorrhagic fevers. Avian flu , another agent, is of grave concern because it can be spread from birds to humans, and potentially from human to human. The government is worried that terrori...Tommy Thompson says capital needed for electronic health records
...d when it invested in testing devices for SARS and anthrax that did not sell. "Even knowing what's going to go on in the next year is very difficult in this type of marketplace," Prudent said. Biofuel possibilities Experts agree that Wisconsin is strategically placed to launch the new bio-energy econom...Wisconsin consortium aims for defense business
... areas of study. For example, research dollars for anthrax were once allocated on the basis of the diseases impact on agriculture, but its use in germ warfare now means that studying it has become largely a military project. Hefty compared the new consortium to WiCell, the independent organization spun off...Delivery of needles in the Capitol missed the point about stem-cell research
... Doesn't anyone remember the envelopes filled with anthrax in Washington, D.C.? Some people will wrongly conclude the needles were dangerous because they were used by a diabetic. Diabetes is not a communicable disease. It's a condition that affects millions of Americans, many of them children, but it canno......etection of dangerous biological agents, including anthrax and other microbial pathogens. The device could be constructed, according to Beck, utilizing the natural features bacteria and other microbes use to sense their environments. The wired bacterial cells, coupled with modern microelectronics, would hav...Pharma majors gear to supply anti-anthrax drug
The panic that has gripped the U.S with anthrax bacterial infections coming to light has led to an...of 20 million tablets a month of Ciprofloxacin for anthrax treatment starting December. The treatment for anthrax entails one ciprofloxacin twice a day and the...The fear of biological weapons such as anthrax may be more likely to create illness than the weap...could be the result of panic caused by the news of anthrax attacks. A letter to the British Medical Journal from researchers in the UK, US and Australia predic...Smallpox as Biological Weapons?
As biological weapons go, anthrax is nowhere as terrifying as several others, says Jim Matthews, an associate professor of pharmacy at Northeastern University. Smallpox would be a lot worse. The government now has about 15 million doses of smallpox vaccine on hand. Experiments are ge......nd developments in understanding of diseases like anthrax and botulism, will help in developing tests and va...itute of Infectious Diseases. He said a release of anthrax bacteria near a city of half a million people would cause up to 93,000 deaths within a week. Part ...... prescribed to people who may have been exposed to anthrax -- can stunt fetal growth when taken by pregnant w...cline, which works equally well against strains of anthrax detected in recent weeks in the United States. But doxycycline is part of a class of drugs that can ...Cethromycin Achieves Primary Endpoint in Pivotal Phase 3 Pneumonia Clinical Trial
...tudies for the prophylactic treatment ofinhalation anthrax post exposure. The FDA has designatedcethromycin a...n drug for the prophylactic treatment ofinhalation anthrax post exposure, but the FDA has not yet approvedthe drug for marketing in this or any other indicatio......e includes novel drugs totreat hepatitis C, lupus, anthrax disease, cancer, rheumatoidarthritis and HIV/AIDS....se 20,000 doses ofABthrax(TM) for the treatment of anthrax disease. Other HGS drugsin clinical development include two TRAIL receptor antibodies forthe treatme...Human Genome Sciences Announces Positive Final Results Of Phase 2b Trial of Albuferon
...e includes novel drugs totreat hepatitis C, lupus, anthrax disease, cancer, rheumatoidarthritis and HIV/AIDS....se 20,000 doses ofABthrax(TM) for the treatment of anthrax disease. Other HGS drugsin clinical development include two TRAIL receptor antibodies forthe treatme...Targanta Study Shows Oritavancin Treatment Effective in a Mouse Model of Anthrax
...for both military personnel and citizens againstan anthrax attack." Study Methods and Results: Efficacy o...ravenous dose of ORIadministered 24 hours prior to anthrax exposure provided a 100percent survival rate at 30 days. Researchers at USAMRIID and Targanta concl...Avant’s Typhoid Fever Vaccine Demonstrates Excellent Clinical Potential
...and effective orally administered vaccines against anthrax andplague or other any other microbes used as bioweapons and otherdisease causing agents; (3) the ability to successfully completeproduct research and further development, including animal,pre-clinical and clinical studies, and commercialization ofCh...