The greatly respected Professor Charles Hurburgh Iowa State Universityprofessor of agricultural and biological engineering will chair the second day of the conference Food traceability Dallas Feb 1-2 ...

CDC’s lab operations have been under scrutiny since 2014 because of a series of high-profile safety incidents at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta that involved anthrax, Ebola and a deadly ...

CDC officials said nobody was endangered because their labs have redundant layers of safety and security to protect employees and the public. When issues arise, they are fixed immediately, said ...

A paper that analyses a hypothetical poison attack on the United States has been published despite the government's objections. The paper's authors modelled the health and economic losses that ...

Biologists, biosecurity experts and university administrators voiced their concerns about the tricky process of identifying and regulating dual-use research on 15 July at the NIH campus in ...

Letters laced with anthrax bacteria started showing up in letters delivered by the post office in the wake of 9/11. Five people died. In 2003, the US government launched a $1 billion anti ...

Bioterror: A Very Real Threat. Share. Resize. By Ken Alibek and Stephen Handelman. Dr. Alibek, deputy chief of the Soviet Union's bioweapons program from 1988 to 1992, is president of Advanced ...

What if Washington DC got hit with a bioterrorist attack -- and no one noticed? That's the scenario Mark Benjamin sketches out in Salon.On Sept. 24, 2005, tens of thousands of protesters marched ...

The U.S. and Russia will fight international efforts this week to set a deadline to destroy the last known stocks of smallpox, saying the deadly virus is needed for research to combat bioterrorism.

100 of the most powerful, inspiring and influential women in Bay Area ...