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The cult Aum Shinrikyo is infamous for its deadly chemical weapons attacks on metropolitan Tokyo in the 1990s. Less well known is the ambitious biological weapons program that preceded the group’s ...

Could new AI technology help unleash a devastating pandemic? That’s a concern top government officials and tech leaders have raised in recent months. One study last summer found that students could ...

Given the many pressing concerns of the day, fear of plague probably isn't what causes most Americans to lose sleep. But for those whose responsibility it is to combat bioterrorism, plague is among ...

A compound developed by British scientists early in World War II as a treatment against chemical weapons has value against today's threat of bioterrorism, according to Indiana University School of ...

Not only did last night’s episode of Fringe have some great nipple commentary, occasioned by a virus that Hulks people out, but it also brought us some closure on a big mystery. Called “The ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson blames bioterrorists for a string of anthrax cases in Nevada, Florida and New York, but he stopped short of linking them to Osama bin ...

While we are under siege by microbes spread by terrorists, we are also under siege by biological pathogens we encounter naturally as part of our human ecology ...

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - A compound developed by British scientists early in World War II as a treatment against chemical weapons has value against today's threat of bioterrorism, according to Indiana ...