With the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) support in the form of $5.5 million for the base period ...

Nearly 80 beef cattle died in Wyoming due to a natural occurrence of anthrax, a bacterial pathogen that can survive in the soil for years or even decades and then spark sporadic outbreaks, often when ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook University researchers have found a key enzyme in an anthrax bacterium that could lead to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook At this moment, the naturally occurring biological weapon, anthrax, lies dormant all over the ...

Anthrax is an infectious bacterial disease endemic in some parts of Africa. It affects people, livestock as well as wildlife. Using GPS telemetry data, a team of scientists reconstructed a special ...

The newly described bacterium is of significance in terms of environment, ecology and animal health. There is also the possibility that the organism could cause harm to people. The scientists behind ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Beneath the Arctic tundra lies a biological time capsule of ...

After mail laced with anthrax showed up on Capitol Hill in 2001, things started to feel different. “You picked it up and it was all crinkly and crispy,” says Jim Manley of the letters he got after ...

A brigadier general who led an Army biodefense lab in Utah is among a dozen individuals facing potential disciplinary actions — including loss of jobs — for egregious failures that contributed to the ...