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 ...

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 ...

n the evening of March 30, 1979, an invisible cloud of anthrax spores drifted over Sverdlovsk, a large Russian industrial city in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. The anthrax release, which ...

Anup Singh is a spin doctor. Anup Singh is a spin doctor. The senior manager for Sandia National Laboratories' biological science and technology group, is spreading the word about one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...