Last minute deals in Congress push through biodefence bill and give cash boost to NIH. You have full access to this article via your institution. In a late-night flurry of activity as it rushed to ...

Hurburgh has been working with F.C. Stone, a Des Moines-based commodity trading company, on details of implementing a new law. They ran a mock recall to test their traceability system. Under the trial ...

Correction Nov. 9, 2005 The Department of Homeland Security says that the Biowatch system detected the Francisella tularensis bacterium in Texas, not a close relative as reported.

By Ron Leuty – Senior Reporter, San Francisco Business Times Apr 2, 2013 ...

The original law, enacted in June 2002, was supposed to provide inducements for biotech companies to work on vaccines and antidotes for threats such as anthrax and Ebola. However, the structure of ...

WASHINGTON -- States that routinely deal with hurricanes and other natural disasters are better prepared than others to handle bioterrorism, but overall the nation is struggling to develop plans ...

Only facilities capable of the highest level of biocontainment -- biosafety level 4 (BSL4) -- are allowed to work on a select group of deadly pathogens with no known cure, such as Ebola and ...

It glistens. It swells. It oozes pus. It is crafted with Hollywood special FX. But this horror—a fake buboe mimicking those caused by plague—is arriving at an ER near you. The plastic ...

Today, a smallpox shot cannot be had for the asking. Each adult who was inoculated as a child has a scar from it, usually on the left shoulder. Although few of us realize it, that’s our only ...

DHS Aims to Replace Slow, Outdated Bioterror-Detection System A new plan to draw on big data and distributed sensors will replace a 2003 system that can take up to 39 hours to detect a threat.

Ebola virus kills quickly. It hails from a family of hemorrhagic fevers that trigger massive internal bleeding. Seven years ago, during an outbreak in Africa, doctors stumbled on a possible cure ...