With the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) support in the form of $5.5 million for the base period ...

Nearly 80 beef cattle died in Wyoming due to a natural occurrence of anthrax, a bacterial pathogen that can survive in the soil for years or even decades and then spark sporadic outbreaks, often when ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook At this moment, the naturally occurring biological weapon, anthrax, lies dormant all over the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook University researchers have found a key enzyme in an anthrax bacterium that could lead to ...

With the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) “super bugs” the need for new bactericidal approaches is growing in urgency. Compounding the threat of MDR, is the rise of antibiotic resistance in ...

The newly described bacterium is of significance in terms of environment, ecology and animal health. There is also the possibility that the organism could cause harm to people. The scientists behind ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2019, federal lab regulators ordered the prestigious U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, ...

Rockville, MD – Scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and collaborators have deciphered the genome of the notorious Ames strain of the bacterium that causes anthrax, Bacillus ...

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Anthrax is an infectious bacterial disease endemic in some parts of Africa. It affects people, livestock as well as wildlife. Using GPS telemetry data, a team of scientists reconstructed a special ...