A huge budget increase proposed by the president. Numerous legislative initiatives at the federal and state level. Public fears of biological harm. That is the new reality brought to us by ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic organisms or biological toxins that have the potential to cause disease and death in humans, animals, or plants. While these pathogens may not pose a threat to ...

The recent Ricin incident in Las Vegas in February of this year has once again brought new attention to the potential for a biological terrorism attack on US soil. However, given the fact that no ...

The genomes of thousands of organisms, including pathogens, have now been sequenced and deposited in databases freely accessible to all scientists. This information is accelerating our ability to ...

It usually isn’t news to report when something didn’t happen, but in this case, it is worth noting: 2013 ended and there still hasn’t been a terrorist attack on America using weapons of mass ...

The United States has become preoccupied with the threat of bioterrorism — the potential for the poisoning of the milk supply with botulinum toxin, the hypothetical dissemination of smallpox by ...

HELENA Bioterrorism isn t just a big-city threat, a Montana public health official warned Wednesday. We don t want people to become complacent and think that it won t or can t happen here, said state ...

It's been a while since we have heard much about it, but, bioterrorism has once aging reared it ugly head. On December 3rd the Commission on Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism released its ...

There has been a lot of speculation about whether Covid-19 was a naturally occurring disease. Here, biodefense expert Dr. Mark Kortepeter explains what scientists look for in determining whether a ...

Scientists have warned that the so-called gene drive technology that can produce "supercharged" genetically modified (GM) organisms could fall into the wrong hands. These organisms can be used by ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In 2001, following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the ...

The genomes of thousands of organisms, including pathogens, have now been sequenced and deposited in databases freely accessible to all scientists. This information is accelerating our ability to ...