A need exists for alternate or supplemental treatment modalities, particularly those that neutralize anthrax toxins. The focus has been on passive immunization with monoclonal and polyclonal ...

PHILADELPHIA — A project launched this week will use PC power to search for molecules that might block the anthrax toxin from entering human cells. The ambitious project has the backing of computer ...

Bacterial pathogens use many strategies to avoid being detected by the host's immune system. New work published in Nature indicates that Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, targets ...

In July Infection and Immunity, Brian Price and colleagues from Ohio State University showed that DNA-based immunization with a plasmid encoding the LF or PA protein provides complete protection ...

Between 1993 and 1995, Aum Shinrikyo tried as many as 10 times to spray botulinum toxin and anthrax in downtown Tokyo. Just why the attacks failed is unclear, but some experts suspect the cult did ...

The structures of all three proteins that comprise the anthrax toxin, and now small-molecule inhibitors of the toxin, have been reported 4. Structural studies are now central to devising and ...

where they requested that the United States set up production facilities sufficient to produce large amounts of anthrax bacterial spores (called "Agent N") and botulinum toxin ("Agent X").

Anthrax is a disease that can pass from animals ... The bacteria produce extremely potent toxins which are responsible for the symptoms, causing a high lethality rate. Humans can develop the ...

Questions have arisen about why United States Forces Korea (USFK) has established a lab at Osan Air Base, south of Seoul, and ...

A need exists for alternate or supplemental treatment modalities, particularly those that neutralize anthrax toxins. The focus has been on passive immunization with monoclonal and polyclonal ...