A new study of anthrax reveals why the infection is deadly. The findings also offer clues that could be used to better treat people who are infected, which could possibly improve survival rates, ...

TROY, N.Y. -- Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Toronto have designed a nanoscale assembly of molecules that successfully counteracts and inhibits anthrax toxin ...

Bacillus anthracis lethal toxin (LT) is a determinant of lethal anthrax. Its function in myeloid cells is required for bacterial dissemination, and LT itself can directly trigger dysfunction of the ...

Anthrax conjures thoughts of bioterrorism, though it's a disease caused by a rare but naturally-occurring bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. Scientists have now found that a toxin produced by the ...

Scientists have identified key structures of the anthrax bacterium that, at least in theory, could lead to antitoxins and other therapies for the infection. The research, some of it begun as long as ...

MADISON - Building on their 2001 discovery of a cellular doorway used by anthrax toxin to enter cells, University of Wisconsin Medical School researchers have found a second anthrax toxin doorway, or ...

Anthrax, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is often treatable in its early stages. But once the disease has progressed beyond the "point of no return" after just a few ...

Julia Ying Wang grips the tail of a squirming mouse as she brings a syringe slowly toward the animal. Conversation stops as she slides the tip of the needle into its tail, and injects a dose of ...

A health worker prepares the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine in the city of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil - Copyright AFP/File Ricardo ARDUENGO A health worker ...

April 17 -- Anthrax is something Americans have come to know and fear. Last fall, it killed five people and made 13 others sick. The anthrax bacteria are so infectious that health officials wear ...

Dr. R. John Collier, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School, will present his lecture, “Addressing the Threat of Anthrax,” tomorrow at 4 p ...

In the final months of 2001, five people died because they opened their mail. The killers were hidden inside the envelopes, small spores that were inhaled by the unfortunate addresses. Inside their ...