American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...research in the wrong hands can become a weapon of terror Chemical & Engineering News In a post 9-11 world where laboratory-made viruses and other legitimate scientific discoveries could become terrorists weapons, scientists are stepping-up efforts to help ensure that well-intended research is not use...5 Stanford professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
...ion and currently is a member of its task force on terror and violence. In 1995, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Laitin has been a Howard Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Beh...2006 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize awarded
...MIT and other institutions in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, with much more attention focused on scholars and students from abroad who seek visas to live and study in the United States. "My view is that it is the government's role to decide who comes to this country as an employee or scholar or studen...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 29, 2006
...oil. It occurred a week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, when anthrax-laced letters sent through the mail killed five people and raised the fear level nationwide. Despite 9,100 FBI interviews, 67 searches, and 6,000 grand jury subpoenas, the case remains unsolved. Ember surveys new developments ...Identifying the 'nuclear' in nuclear medicine as high benefit
...se and treat disease," noted Baltimore's radiation terror expert and co-author of "Understanding Radiologica...s considerable fear," notes Links. To counter "the terror of terrorism," Links suggests integrating excellent crisis communication with every disaster plan cr...Biodesign Institute and TGen awarded grants to help lessen threat of radiological terrorist event
...radioactive materials. "The threat of radiological terror is very real," said George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute who also chairs the Department of Defense's task force on bioterrorism. "Most scenarios will present major organizational challenges to government, medical facilities and emergency...Scientists describe new way to peer inside bacteria
... find ways to detect or disable bacteria used in a terror attack. "The more we learn about soil microbe chemistry, the better we'll be able to predict the movement of contaminants in the environment," said Brookhaven microbiologist Jeffrey Gillow. "What we learn might also suggest new ways to harness microo...Antibodies from plants protect against anthrax
...e at a time and place calculated to induce maximum terror through mass casualties. The unpredictable nature of such events compels us to develop cost-effective, highly stable medical countermeasures to enable authorities to treat individuals exposed to bioterror agents such as anthrax," says Les Baillie of...Survivors to revisit the polio scare
Anyone over age 50 is likely to remember the terror of polio. Beaches were closed at the height of summer because the crippling, contagious disease seemed to spread through contact with water. Adults and children saw their lives become a nightmare of isolation wards, spinal taps, braces, orthopedic su...Blocking cell signaling can stymie viral infections, study shows
...tion. Smallpox has been identified as a potential terror weapon because, with the suspension of universal vaccination against the virus in the 1970s, most Americans are thought to have little immunity to the often lethal disease. The NIAID grant supports research into the basic workings of the immune syste...