Judge denies gov’t request to search suspect’s iPhone in ricin case
(ArsTechnica) According to court documents, sometime in the late hours of March 17, 2014, a Georgetown University student showed a fellow student a small plastic bag containing what he claimed was...
View ArticleWill hackers find bioweapon secrets in the cloud?
(FCW) The collision of big data and decoded genetic information is creating a wealth of opportunities for biologists, engineers and public health researchers. However, there is also the potential that...
View ArticleBag Found Under Gas Main Cover Tests Positive for Ricin
(NBC10 Philadelphia) A bag recovered last week from inside the cover of a gas main tested positive for ricin, investigators tell NBC10.com. On March 20, hazmat crews recovered a package from under the...
View ArticleDelay in Sentencing for Ricin Letter Case
(WJTV) A federal judge has granted a request to provide the attorney for a 42-year-old man who pleaded guilty to sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials more time to...
View ArticleU.S. Completes Destruction of Sarin Precursors from Syria on the Cape Ray
(Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) All 581 metric tonnes of a precursor chemical for sarin gas that were removed from the Syrian Arab Republic and trans-loaded onto the U.S....
View ArticleDevelopment of Self-Powered Chemical and Biological Sensors
GlobalBiodefense: New types of smart materials that can respond to selective stimuli hold promise in the development of novel platforms for self-powered chemical and biological (CB) sensors that can...
View ArticleBotulinum Neurotoxin Countermeasure Discovery
GlobalBiodefense: U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) is contracting with the Institute of Advanced Sciences, Inc. (IAS) in support of the Defense Threat and Reduction...
View ArticleMicrorockets fueled by water neutralize chemical and biological warfare agents
AmericanChemicalSociety: Scientists are developing microrockets to fight back against dangerous chemical and biological agents, should the need arise. In the journal ACS Nano, they describe new...
View ArticleUNMC receives $1.9 million grant to develop therapy to protect against nerve...
University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers have received a $1.9 million grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense’s to develop a new therapy to protect...
View ArticleBeware of animal diseases as biological weapons, health experts say
(Reuters) The World Health Organization, animal health and national defense officers called on Tuesday for wider international cooperation to avoid the spread of animal diseases that could be used as...
View ArticleAfter five years of delay, WMD plan is ‘nonsensical,’ critics say
(WASHINGTONPOST)- The Department of Homeland Security, created to help safeguard the nation from terrorism, has faced criticism for years over its approach to tackling the ultimate fear: an attack on...
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