Huanglongbing, a disease that could devastate the US citrus industry, pits national security against plant pathologists looking to battle natural outbreaks, Ewen Callaway reports. In California's ...

CDC is no longer policing its own labs and has asked USDA to conduct inspections CDC says it won%27t release copies of its internal inspection reports%2C citing security reasons The IG%27s office ...

A laboratory operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is among the handful of facilities that have secretly had their permits suspended in recent years for serious safety ...

Since October 2001, the United States has greatly expanded its commitment to biodefence-related research, with $1.75 billion earmarked for this activity in fiscal year 2003. The goals of this ...

London - For years neglected, derided and underfunded, strategies for combating the threat of bioterrorism are now gaining flesh and are indirectly helping the fight against outbreaks of conventional ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Pharmathene is one of a smattering of small and undercapitalized biotechnology outfits trying to develop either vaccines or antidotes for anthrax, which remains, in the opinion of a lot of experts ...

For a further account of cult bioterror, read the story of how Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, famous for its 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway, established a secret test lab on a ...

"You can make it in your kitchen from a plant you grow in your garden." People can be exposed to ricin through a variety of ways: inhaling the powder, ingesting powder or castor beans, or having ...

Governments the world over are taking measures to protect their citizens against possible bioterror attacks in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the US and the ...

He becomes a fugitive accused of bioterror, but what follows is also a walk back into the recesses of his own memory told through the music and people he's loved and lost. Powers says he ...