Bioterrorism Week articles

Recent articles from Bioterrorism Week

ATCC SDO Releases First Standardized Consensus Protocol.
June 29, 2009... The ATCC® Standards Development Organization (ATCC SDO), an entity of ATCC, has published its first voluntary consensus standard, ASN-0001: "Standardization of In Vitro Assays to Determine Anthrax Toxin Activities." The document is an approved American National Standard that...

Recent findings from Y.R. Kong and co-authors highlight research in anthrax.
June 29, 2009... "PA-binding domain of LF (LFn) or PA-binding domain of EF (EFn) is the anthrax protective antigen (PA) binding domain of anthrax lethal factor ( LF) or edema factor (EF). Here we show the development of a novel anthrax toxin inhibitor, fusion protein of N-terminal 27 amino acids deletion of...

Findings from Indiana University, Medical Department advance knowledge in behavior.
June 29, 2009... "The basolateral amygdala (BL) is a putative site for regulating anxiety, where inhibition and excitation respectively lead to decreases and increases in anxiety-like behaviors. The BL contains local networks of GABAergic interneurons that are subdivided into classes based on neurochemical...

Findings in life sciences reported from M. Mueller and co-researchers.
June 29, 2009... "Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are a class of potent virulence factors that convert from a soluble form to a membrane-integrated pore(1). They exhibit their toxic effect either by destruction of the membrane permeability barrier or by delivery of toxic components through the pores," scientists...

Investigators at University of Western Sydney release new data on life sciences.
June 29, 2009... In this recent report published in the journal BMC Public Health, researchers in Penrith, Australia conducted a study "To help improve incident preparedness this study assessed socio-demographic and socio-economic predictors of perceived risk of terrorism within Australia and willingness to...