I appreciated Lois Ember's article on the anthrax case (C&EN, Dec. 4, 2006, page 47). My guess is that the other 50,000 members of the American Society for Microbiology (and many chemists who are not ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of researchers has now engineered a virus nanoparticle vaccine against Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis, tier 1 agents that pose serious threats to national security of the United States.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The long-sought-after biological “gateway” that anthrax uses to enter healthy cells has been uncovered by microbiologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Anthrax ...

The research found that bacteria strains collected from humans and animals tended to have more copies of the virulence plasmids than those collected from environmental sources. The research, a ...

Disarmed anthrax toxin is being tested as a way of fighting the Covid-19 virus. Scientists at the University of Greenwich are collaborating with the Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology to develop ...

Anthrax is caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis, a hardy, spore-forming bacterium that can survive in extreme conditions for a long time. The bacterium is highly toxic. Share on Pinterest ...

The antibiotic teixobactin—developed a decade ago by Northeastern University professors Kim Lewis and Slava Epstein in collaboration with university startup NovoBiotic—has already proven itself ...

In December 2001, as the investigation into the U.S. anthrax attacks was gathering steam, coalition soldiers in Afghanistan uncovered what appeared to be an important clue: a trail of documents ...

Shihui Liu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and member of the Aging Institute, a joint venture of Pitt and UPMC Anthrax, an infectious ...