News tagged with anthrax spores

Killer silk: Making silk fibers that kill anthrax and other microbes in minutes

A simple, inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria — even the armor-coated spores of microbes like anthrax — in minutes, scientists ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers publish scientific paper on 2001 anthrax attacks

Researchers at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and collaborators at the FBI, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and Northern Arizona University ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dutch researchers develop anthrax sensor

Nanotechnologists at University of Twente's MESA+ research institute have developed a sensor that can detect anthrax spores. The invention is more sensitive and efficient than existing detection methods. The ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jul 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Science agency to review FBI's anthrax inquiry

(AP) -- The National Academy of Sciences said Friday it will review the lab work behind the FBI's conclusion that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001.

Other Sciences / Other

created May 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1