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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As many as 75 scientists and staff in US government laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria after researchers failed to follow safety procedures, prompting an ...

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

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.

In 1998, one Palestinian and six Bulgarian doctors were accused of an unusual biocrime: injecting nearly 400 children with HIV laden blood in Benghazi, Libya. This case remains unsolved; but ...

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 ...

By Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff WriterSep 9, 2002 LIEBERMAN ALEX WONG ...

Mr. Bush asked for $800 million for the next fiscal year, and $5.6 billion over the next 10 years for what is called Project Bioshield. Many details still need to be worked out, especially some ...

When President Bush goes before Congress later this month, it will mark four years since he used his State of the Union address to launch Project BioShield, an ambitious effort to counter ...

So far, none of the letters have tested positive for anthrax microbes, and most abortion providers do not expect them to. They've received similar threats in the past -- more than 80 letters ...