Bracing for germ attacks

Failed Trojan horse

Analysing the contents of containers suspected of carrying toxins has become easier

Journals to censor bioterrorism data

Know the devil

Chink in the armour

Bioterrorism: Contentious content

The sudden spurt in articles on bioterrorism published by medical journals may have inadvertently helped convince the public that the war on Iraq …

Blocking out bioterrorism

Obsessive compulsive funding

DNA maps vs terrorism

Red alert

'Tagged' viruses can warn us of an impending epidemic

Ebola vaccine developed to fight bioterrorism

An experimental vaccine against the lethal Ebola virus has been administered to humans for the first time in November 2003. If the trial proves …

Database of potential bioweapons

Secret revealed

Code of misconduct

The human genome may not solve all our problems. One of the most far-reaching consequences of the decoding is the ability to predict people's …

Alarm over terror tool

Smallpox scare leads to panic purchase of its vaccine

Safe or smug?

The awareness of the looming threat of bioweapons has evoked a serious response from all over the world, except India

Shaken but not stirred

US sticks to its guns on not verifying bioweapons treaty

Reprieve for the killer

Smallpox virus stocks to be kept for research until 2002

Basic Instinct

In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera …

Dictating terms

The US forces its agenda upon other member states at the fifth review conference of the bioweapons convention

New US rules on food imports

It has been nine months since the US began its search for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Although nothing was found,…

Bioterrorism? Child's play

Requiem for the world we know

Germs of terror

As terrorists arm themselves with biological weapons, India wakes up to find how ill equipped it is to face this deadly reality

Elusive cause